> We have a web application that forks off an external program to inject
> an email in the outgoing queue. At busy periods this external program
> (qmail-inject) can take a little while to return. I'm currently using
> popen() to spawn the qmail-inject binary.
>
> Is there a way to spawn the external binary but not wait for it to
> return. I'd be happy to ignore any return value if the tradeoff was a
> fast return.
If you call it via exec(), you can append an ampersan to detach the
controlling terminal:
exec("/path/to/qmail-inject -args &");
Wish php had fork() in a non-experimental context. :\
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