On Saturday 16 March 2002 06:21, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone know if shell_exec waits to have whatever it was passed to > be executed before returning to the script? > > I am asking that because I need to write a script to compact files to a > zip and then have it e-mailed to a predefined address. > > The files it will compact might have a considerable size and since this > script will be triggered by a web page I wonder if shell_exec would be > executed as a separate thread or if it will be the same one. > > For me, the ideal thing was to have it wait for the command to be over.
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