I can only suggest you change the "default" settings on the MS-DOS
application thingie...
Right-click the MS-DOS icon in the Start menu, mess with settings like
"run in background" etc.
I suspect that it is a configuration of MS-DOS window issue, and has
nothing to do with PHP.
On Mon, June 12, 2006 3:09 am, Venkatesh M. S. wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I was using popen and pclose on a previous version of PHP on Windows
> with an
> older version of Apache (2.x). ( I think it was 4.4.1 but will need to
> check
> as i am not sure).
>
> pclose(popen("start " . $exe . " " . $args, "r"))
>
> Where $exe is my path to the batch file and $args are the arguments
> for the
> batch file. The batch file, in turn calls other batch files on a
> shared
> folder on a different PC
>
> On Windows, it would open up the dos window and run commands there and
> exit
> and the PHP script that called the pclose would terminate loading on
> the
> users' browsers.
>
> Now, with PHP 4.4.2, the pclose and popen send the tasks to the
> background
> and the dos window does not show up! As a result, killing the dos
> process is
> not possible (i get access denied in windows...) and the users cannot
> see
> the dos window when it runs.
>
> I would like the php script to send the commands to a dos window, and
> the
> php script to finish executing. I tried passthru, system, exec and
> proc_open... and none of them work. None of them bring up the dos
> window.
>
> Please help!
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Venkat
>
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