Re: [PHP] Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

2004-01-23 Thread Stuart
John Clegg wrote: I have finally had a chance to test your suggestion and I am still getting a browser timeout ? The 1st program runs to completion even though the broswer times out. So it doesn't execute the second program :-( I have also tried `/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &` exec('/

Re: [PHP] Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

2004-01-23 Thread John Clegg
Hi Stuart, I have finally had a chance to test your suggestion and I am still getting a browser timeout ? The 1st program runs to completion even though the broswer times out. So it doesn't execute the second program :-( I have also tried `/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &` exec('/usr/lo

Re: [PHP] Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

2004-01-21 Thread Stuart
John Clegg wrote: I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am not interested in the output and I would like to do the equivalent of a fork as these programs take a long time. system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1'); system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2'); syst

[PHP] Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

2004-01-21 Thread John Clegg
Hi I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am not interested in the output and I would like to do the equivalent of a fork as these programs take a long time. eg system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1'); system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2'); Any suggestion