longtime-exec blocks other requests?

[Frank Thorstens]

Hi,

i have a question. My PHP script calls a passthru (zip that creates a biiig
archive). This command can take a lot of time, perhaps 20 seconds or so. Is
the complete PHP engine on this server blocked for this time? If other users
call this script (oder other scripts), do they have to wait 20 seconds?

bye,
Frank

[Chung Leong]

Re: longtime-exec blocks other requests?

No, unless you have a web server that can only handle one connection at a
time.

If a session is left open the user who made the request would be blocked,
however.

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[Frank Thorstens]

Re: longtime-exec blocks other requests?

Hi,
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> No, unless you have a web server that can only handle one connection at a
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Ah, ok, i think this is not the case with normal Apache 1.x, right?
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> If a session is left open the user who made the request would be blocked,
> however.[/color]

Hm, i'm not using sessions but is it possible that the same user is blocked
during its passthru execution though?

Thanks for your reply!

bye,
Frank