C would be the last resort. I suppose it would be easily done in Perl,
but most of my colleagues prefer PHP.
I love to make taking over the code easy, so PHP is more preferable to
me.
That makes perfect sense, but sometimes PHP is not the best/right
answer.
What I think you need to do is:
parent: fork() your child process, then do whatever.
child: use proc_open to call your program and redirect stderr.
That's kind of odd, but seems to be the only way to workaround this...
Thanks for you help.
Having come to this rather late, I recently wrote some code that may be
of some help to you which forks processes:
http://www.phpguru.org/downloads/pcntl/
You need pcntl and it only works on *nix (I understand). It does make
fork()ing somewhat easier though. Be careful of defunct processes though.
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