note 48190 deleted from function.system by googleguy

Note Submitter: cabel at panic dot com ---- We were using system() to call a Cocoa command-line binary from PHP using Mac OS X. The Cocoa binary was simply not working -- no error message, no logging, nothing, it would just die within moments of launching from the system() function and we'd get no results. The answer now seems obvious -- we were hitting PHP's memory limit. We did not consider that PHP's memory limit would also extend to programs launched via system(). So, if your system() call is failing mysteriously and giving no results, after trying the obvious (permissions, executable, etc.) considering upping: memory_limit in your php.ini from 8M to something larger.