Hi Natasha,
Well the probably easiest shitty way to do it is:
exec("theprogram 1> /some/file 2>&1 &");
would exec()ute theprogram and will put it's output in
/some/file and stderr's output also in the /some/file,
and & at last signifies the backgroundness of the
program.
however as you mentioned C, the better way could fork
it in C, and since i don't wanna get offtopic i won't
mention it here.
-:)
HTH
--- Natasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey,
>
> i wanted to know if there's a fork function in php,
> cause i don't see it in the manual.
>
> I basically wanna call a C program from PHP.
>
> Now the problem is that the C program will be
> running
> for longs periods like maybe half or even an hour.
> So
> i would basically want to just execute the program
> and
> return control to the script immediately so that the
> c
> program continues it's work.
>
> it's easy with forking. but i dont see it in php.
>
> thx.
>
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