* Thus wrote Daevid Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Yeah, that is the 'hack' solution I came up with too. LOL.
>
> I guess I was hoping for something more elegant...
>
> Is there a reason that PHP doesn't handle the & properly? I mean, it seems
> as though you'd have to go out of your way to force it NOT to spawn the task
> in the background. If PHP was just executing the command in a shell, it
> seems that the OS would handle the & for you...
true, but php exec's your program through a pipe. So because a the
pipe opens bidirectional handles for input and output, I believe the system
can't let the program go into the background because the output
handle cant be released.
Another option, and may be cleaner, is to enable and option to your
C program to daemonize itself.
HTH,
Curt
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