note 13379 modified in function.exec by danbrown

From: Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:38:51 +0000
Subject: note 13379 modified in function.exec by danbrown
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Remember to use unix exit(0); on unix calls that use Unix redirection operator ">" . This was a real problem for me, I was not getting a response back in the following code until I added exit(0); <?PHP function myspawn() { $command="/usr/local/bin/mybinary infile.txt > outfile.tx2"; exec($command); ## nothing worked for me until I added this next line. exec("exit(0)"); } ?> <html> <head> <title>New Page 1</title> </head> <body> Creating output file now <? myspawn();?> </body> </html> --was-- Remember to use unix exit(o); on unix calls that use Unix redirection operator ">" . This was a real problem for me, I was not getting a response back in the following code until I added exit(0); <?PHP function myspawn() { $command="/usr/local/bin/mybinary infile.txt > outfile.tx2"; exec($command); ## nothing worked for me until I added this next line. exec("exit(0)"); } ?> <html> <head> <title>New Page 1</title> </head> <body> Creating output file now <? myspawn();?> </body> </html> http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

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