exec() and &

[Bryan Andrews]

At the shell you can always type "rm -rf /tmp/* &" and let the delete
command run in the background. Is there a way to do this from a php
shell script?

I've tried `rm -rf /tmp/* &` ... but with the backticks it still
waits for the command to finish before moving on to the next. I've
also tried exec() with no luck. Anyone know any tricks?

[Steve]

Re: exec() and &

On Mar 14, 9:54 pm, Bryan Andrews <bryanandr...@g mail.comwrote:

At the shell you can always type "rm -rf /tmp/* &" and let the delete
command run in the background. Is there a way to do this from a php
shell script?
>
I've tried `rm -rf /tmp/* &` ... but with the backticks it still
waits for the command to finish before moving on to the next. I've
also tried exec() with no luck. Anyone know any tricks?

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php

It's not really threading, but you can escape the parent process while
the child is running.

[Bryan Andrews]

Re: exec() and &amp;

On Mar 14, 7:33 pm, Steve <steve.h...@gma il.comwrote:

On Mar 14, 9:54 pm, Bryan Andrews <bryanandr...@g mail.comwrote:
>

At the shell you can always type "rm -rf /tmp/* &" and let the delete
command run in the background. Is there a way to do this from a php
shell script?

>

I've tried `rm -rf /tmp/* &` ... but with the backticks it still
waits for the command to finish before moving on to the next. I've
also tried exec() with no luck. Anyone know any tricks?

>

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php

>
It's not really threading, but you can escape the parent process while
the child is running.

That worked great, thanks!

[good@respnse.sic.com]

Re: exec() and &amp;

In article <1b3a9e06-a84d-4a95-a22a-
d8cec47b4c2b@e2 5g2000prg.googl egroups.com>, bryanandrews@gm ail.com
says...

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php

It's not really threading, but you can escape the parent process while
the child is running.

>
That worked great, thanks!
>

Seconded - very interesting reading - thank you.