sam2222 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Hello,Is there a way to make PHP not wait for a process to finish when you start it from exec? or is there any other ways to start a process from PHP and for PHP not to wait?Thanks,Sam Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/5347-stop-php-waiting-for-process-to-finish/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Can you explain why you want this to happen?Ken Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/5347-stop-php-waiting-for-process-to-finish/#findComment-19032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam2222 Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for your reply.Well I want the process to run in the background and do somethings that will take a while and I don't want the script to be loading for all the time. I've got the process to run in the background now I just can't get PHP to stop waiting for it to finish.Thanks,Sam Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/5347-stop-php-waiting-for-process-to-finish/#findComment-19033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 You could look at the [a href=\"http://www.php.net/pcntl_fork\" target=\"_blank\"]pcntl_fork[/a]() function and do the exec in the forked procedure. That script would wait for the execed procedure to finish before ending. You main script would have to wait until the forked script finishes before ending, but that could be at the very end of the script.I've never used this myself, so YMMV.Ken Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/5347-stop-php-waiting-for-process-to-finish/#findComment-19034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam2222 Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks! I will have a look at that.Thanks,Sam Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/5347-stop-php-waiting-for-process-to-finish/#findComment-19035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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