EdwardBoszczowski

I have a php code that call a process (a java program). The process runs in background for a so long time - from 1 minute to 2 hours. I make the process call using exec: <?php function execInBackground($cmd) { if (substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows"){ pclose(popen("start /B ". $cmd, "r")); } else { exec($cmd . " &> /dev/null &"); } } $command = "java ... ReadEmailsCmdLine 2>&1"; execInBackground($command); echo "FINALIZADO"; Though the command runs in background it looks that the PHP code wait for the command completion to send a answer to client browser because I just see "FINALIZADO" after the java program finished its execution. Does someone know how I can solve this problem? Or at least does have a hint/pointer for that? Since now I thanks any comment/suggestion