Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52073&edit=1
ID: 52073
Updated by: ras...@php.net
Reported by: php at richardneill dot org
Summary: RFE: a few more options to exec()
-Status: Open
+Status: Bogus
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Program Execution
PHP Version: Irrelevant
New Comment:
This is what proc_open() is for.
Previous Comments:
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[2010-06-13 02:48:15] php at richardneill dot org
Description:
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Exec() is missing a few key features:
1. The ability to return STDERR separately from STDOUT.
At the moment, we can get STDOUT back in $output, but STDERR is either
logged (for php-cgi) or sent to the main script STDERR (for php-cli).
The user has the choice to append "2>&1", but it would be really
helpful
to have stderr and stdout both returned in separate arrays.
2. The ability to choose the shell. At the moment, exec() uses apache's
shell,
which is usually /bin/sh (either as bash or ash depending on distro).
If
bash-isms are required, we can work around this with "bash -c '......
'", but
it would be a nice feature.
3. If a process is forked, then we'd like to get the PID, $!. Currently
this can only be achieved thus:
exec ("foo & echo $!", $output)
but we must sacrifice stdout for the purpose.
4. Optionally, some way to do execv("arg1", "arg2", "arg3"....)
Test script:
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I'd suggest having a function:
exec( string $command
[, array &$stdout
[,int &$retval
[,array &$stderr
[,int &$pid
[,int options = BASH|SH|CSH ]
] ] ] ]
)
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