It's not always the best idea to hop onto a mailing list owned by the
developers of a scripting language and accuse them of making 'stupid'
decisions.
If you feel that this issue is major, perhaps you should either join the
developers list and make the suggestion in a nicer manner, or gain CVS
access and make the contribution yourself.
</soapbox>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Gan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: April 4, 2001 7:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Exec() In Windows
>
>
> Dear Ladies and Gents,
>
> That error message "Unable to fork" is stupid, because fork is
> not supported
> under Windows, as it is a Unix command to fork two processes. Windows uses
> multi-threading instead.
> They should just rename the error message to "Identified PHP4 error".
>
> :0)
>
> -- Jason
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Hubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 8:06 AM
> To: zugut; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Exec() In Windows
>
>
> Hi,
>
> You've probably already looked into this, but I just wanted
> to be sure:
> have you checked the persmissions on "Application.exe" ? I
> believe PHP uses
> IUSR_Computer (where Computer is your computer name) to exec() anything so
> if IUSR_Computer doesn't have the rights to read+execute the program, it
> will return an error message.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Olivier
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have the same problem, I don't understand the problem.
> >
> >
> >
> >"Keith Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Hi,
> >> Im having a Problem running an application from a PHP page using the
> >> Exec() function (as well as all the other program execution
> fuctions) on
> a
> >> Windows NT Server running Apache.
> >>
> >> The code I attempt to run is : $ReturnVal = exec("Application.exe");
> >>
> >> It returns with Unable to Fork....
> >>
> >> Does any body have any idea on how to fix this or an
> alternative so I can
> >> just run the damm application....
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >>
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