Re: problem - Win95

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Mike wrote: > > > 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. ;-) Is there really a need on *nix? I've been playing around with it on Linux and an exec ("/bin/something >/dev/null 2>&1 &"); seems to work OK, granted I don't need the output from that though. I just looked at the process list and init (process 1) is set as the parent of the spawned process, that looks pretty detached to me. --rdp -- Rich Payne rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org