[ILUG] spawning a process from a web page..

[Hary Walsh]

>>>>> "Caolan" == Caolan McNamara <Caolan.McNamara at ul.ie> writes:

    Caolan> On 16-Nov-99 Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
    >> I'd like to spawn a Perl script from a PHP script running off
    >> Apache and I do the usual exec() call but of course the script
    >> blocks until the Perl script finishes.  Has anyone managed to
    >> detach a child process from the paren in a similar situation?

Many scripts implement unix system interaction with different
symantics.   What I normally do in these situations is to scribble a
flow chart of what needs to happen from a Unix perspective first, and
then try to translate it into the scripting language I'm using.

So, in a nuthsell, you need to fork, change your process group, and
exec you're new script.  Can these atomic actions be represented in
PHP?  I know nothing of PHP
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hjw