proc_open hangs when started process crashes

[yaront@humaneyes.com]

Hi,

I'm using proc_open to start a process on a WindowsXP server.
If the process that I start crashes for some reason, the whole PHP
parsing hangs.

When opening the TaskManager I can see my process still exists, meaning
it actually hasn't ended although it crashed. any ideas how to solve
this?

thanx
Yaron Tadmor