note 23820 added to function.exec

PHP pages will still hang waiting on exec()'d processes to finish before the server sends eof to the browser, at least with php4.1.2 on apache 1.3.24. I'm trying to create a web-based interface to a MP3 player using mpg123. I exec("mpg123 -v \"$HTTP_GET_VARS[item]\" > /tmp/mpg123status 2>&1 &");, and the rest of my script executes fine, but at the exit(); or end of the script, the browser just sits there holding its page until the mpg123 status either finishes on its own, or is terminated. As under my setup, that means no further requests will be fulfilled to the php script that is still hanging, this becomes a problem. I haven't been able to identify a means to allow the script to terminate, yet allow the sub process (mpg123) to continue, has anyone had luck obtaining this sort of result? Halting the script via stop in the browser, or terminating on the command line allows the mpg123 process to continue, and further requests for my php script to be honored. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23820 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23820 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23820