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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:30:19 +0100
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To: jvlad <dmda@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] shell_exec, environment, and multithreading servers
From: rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling)

2009/5/24 jvlad <dmda@yandex.ru>:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I faced with one funny problem in PHP. Seems there is no way to =
run
> a sub-process using shell_exec() (or backticks), and pass there specially
> crafted environment without affecting all running threads. As soon as I
> update the environment, all other threads see the change. It's
> multithreading nature to be running under the same process and share the
> process environment, no problems so far, but there should be a way to run
> sub-process with appropriate set of environment variables without affecti=
ng
> all the threads.
>
> Looks like for Win32 target, there is a popenex() function that is called=
 by
> shell_exec and this function has env parameter. I think it makes sense to
> pass $_ENV in this argument. Certainly, $_ENV should be converted into ar=
ray
> of pointers.
> Not sure if there is any way under unix other =C2=A0than using execXX() i=
nstead
> of popen() to get the same behaviour.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -jv
>
>
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Does resource proc_open ( string $cmd , array $descriptorspec , array
&$pipes [, string $cwd [, array $env [, array $other_options ]]] ) for
the bill here?

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