Re: creating detached processes in PHP
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:29:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: creating detached processes in PHP | ||
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:47:10 +0200, ilya77@gmail.com <ilya77@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately no.
> On win32 for instance, fork() doesn't exist at all.
>
> There is a need for a cross-platform unified interface.
I suspect that such a thing is a myth in the case of PHP; we already
have cruft following us from the SAPI on fork() that potentially
screws up detached processes on platforms that have it.
Will "app &" work do what you want on unix and "start app" do what you
want on win32?
--Wez.