Re: problem - Win95

> the system() function in php will start the new process but not detach it. > This will result in the php-gtk application seams to be hanging. It > simply waits for the new process to terminate ! > > We could add (a windows-only) function called gtk_system() allowing gtk > applications to start and detach processes. I dont know if this has any > interest for *nix version ? I imagine a function that spawns another process and detaches it neatly would be useful in the *NIX version as well. I wrote a web-based interface to dialing out to an ISP under linux using pppd and noticed that the spawned process keeps the file descriptors from the parents - when Apache was shut down, pppd still had port 80 open and the webserver couldn't be restarted until pppd was killed. Of course, I might've just missed something simple. Point is, I think it's a good idea. ;-) -- Michael.