On Monday 19 February 2001 22:47, ..s.c.o.t.t.. wrote:
> is there something with the PHP system command that
> makes it unable to spawn nohup background processes
>
> perl and PHP are closely related, so i cant really understand
> how an external perl program would be able to do things that
> PHP couldnt (at least in terms of this specific problem)....
> would a PHP call to "system('nohup ... &')" fail, or are your
> reasons for suggesting an external program based on
> something else other than simple feasability?
No, the reason for that wrapper program is that I know of no way in PHP
to get the Process ID of the spawned program. simply calling something
with "nohup" will work fine I'm sure.
> > That alone won't help - "nohup" is also needed.
> > What he could do is write a small Perl/C wrapper for amp, which
> > launches the program in the background and returns its process id.
> > Then he can do a $AmpPID = system ("launchamp $Arg");
> >
> > (the wrapper would have to execute "nohup amp $Args &")
> >
> > and add a 'stop' link
> > <a href="ampstop.php?pid=<?= $AmpPID ?>">Stop</a>
> >
> > And ampstop.php can do a
> > system ("kill -KILL $pid");
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