> (Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > John Wulff wrote: > > I have never heard of someone wanting to do this, but you might want to > look into methods of executing shell commands in the background, which > seems like it should be possible. Basically, you're wanting to execute > something that immediately returns control back to your PHP script. The > PHP script *must* complete before it will be "finished" from the Web > server's perspective. Thus, you'll have to at least split up the logic > you want to do later into a separate script and just figure out how to > get that running just before your script terminates. If it's written in > PHP, don't forget about the CLI; it might come in handy for you in this > case. > > Let us know what you come up with.
Yeah, I could do that but I don't really want to spawn a whole process and copy over all the data that's there already. In a Java servlet this is a piece of cake--you just spin off a thread to do the work and return from the request thread. Here I'd want to do something like a fork(), then exit the parent and do some processing in the child. The PHP manual says that the pcntl() functions (which include forking) are not available from with a web server context, so I guess Apache doesn't like its modules forking off demons. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
