note 49164 deleted from function.exec by tularis

Note Submitter: layter Reason: useless ---- a note to exec: First I assume that you are using unix/linux and not windows. I believe that if you redirect standard output to /dev/null after you have redirected stderr to stdout, that you will end up discarding stdout and seeing only stderr. This would look like this: ps 2>&1 1>/dev/null if you need to see both, but you need to keep them seperate, then you need proc_open() which allows you to feed standard input as well as read standard output and standard error. If you need to spool the process off into the background then you can create some FIFO files and redirect the input and output to those files. Then you can open the fifo files and have access to each data stream independantly. (expect a squabble with this method because fifo's tend to block and it's real easy to get yourself into a deadlock condition - though once you get it working, it should be quite dependable)