note 18252 added to ref.exec

This note is regard php scripts hanging when running system commands in the background until background process completes. If you have redirected system command output and PHP still waits around until background process completes...check if you are using PHP session handlers. If you have used a start_session() before your exec() look into session_write_close() ...sessions use files to store session data on ther server to relate to cookies...for some strange reason this open file handler causes PHP scripts to hang until background completetions...I would think only the file handlers for the system command output would need to be delt with but ?! FreeBSD, Apache mod, PHP 4.1.1 Cheers, Ian Carlson ian@virtisp.net -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+18252 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+18252 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+18252