Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13919 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13192 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Nov 2004 13:29:48 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 8371 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2004 13:29:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mproxy.gmail.com) (216.239.56.241) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2004 13:29:19 -0000 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id w67so100802cwb for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:29:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=WCHlQxqRcqlWUGOQzVwpmPf6HG/V2CPP7hV3QLX0w09o08sASH67/7N/JDqSOg0cgk2O6qB5NEwsOZKeWck3J2JdeYt8iRE1wX5Uuv5rWox5KFoZepWWTMfBrIlNudw7GzvccA7jX3YjrZmUQiuXyjLLrUVeKwWDIwmHUvjGaRs= Received: by 10.11.117.22 with SMTP id p22mr336092cwc; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:29:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.11.117.42 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:29:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e89b42604112205293d61014b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:29:18 -0500 Reply-To: Wez Furlong To: "ilya77@gmail.com" Cc: Jeremy Johnstone , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <90e24d4e041122003850705ce8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] creating detached processes in PHP From: kingwez@gmail.com (Wez Furlong) On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:47:10 +0200, ilya77@gmail.com wrote: > Unfortunately no. > On win32 for instance, fork() doesn't exist at all. > > There is a need for a cross-platform unified interface. I suspect that such a thing is a myth in the case of PHP; we already have cruft following us from the SAPI on fork() that potentially screws up detached processes on platforms that have it. Will "app &" work do what you want on unix and "start app" do what you want on win32? --Wez.