You can use the PHP extension PCNTL, however, it's tricky to talk to different threads. You have to using SHMOP or something along those lines of communicating. I'm sure you can manufacture an alternate communication route, there's just no native way to talk to threads (as far as I know, if someone knows I'd really be interested). A side note, PCNTL is command line only, useful in a daemon situation. If you're in an apache environment you're out of luck unfortunately. Thank you, Ryan Sexton On Aug 29, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Rodrigo Mendoza wrote: Hello everyone, i need to run a process in background as a separate thread, and check the status of that thread every one in a while. It is possible to do this? Rodrigo __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/saFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/