note 80792 deleted from function.shell-exec by nlopess
| From: | nlopess@php.net | Date: | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:00:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 80792 deleted from function.shell-exec by nlopess | ||
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Note Submitter: Anonymous
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Under windows, disappointingly, you can't execute windowed programs. i.e.:
shell_exec('C:\progra~1\Mozilla\firefox.exe');
The process WILL run, but it seems to freeze, the browser does nothing until you kill the process,
so it won't run in the way you'd expect if you were actually sitting on the server :,(
I don't know if this is also the case with *NIX but I hope not.