note 51599 added to function.exec

For Win2k/XP systems, and probably NT as well, after beating my head against a wall for a few days on this, I finally found a foolproof way of backgrounding processes and continuing the script. For some strange reason I just could not seem to get backgrounding to work with either system or exec, or with the wsh.run method for that matter. I have used all three in the past with success, but it just wasn't happening this time. What I finally wound up doing was using psexec from the pstools package found at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml You would use it like: exec("psexec -d blah.bat"); which will start and immediately background blah.bat and immediately resume running the rest of the php script. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51599 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51599&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51599&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51599&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51599&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51599&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51599&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php