exec application in background

[plutoplanet]

Hi all,

I got this little problem: when I try to execute a process which takes a looooong time, the browser stucks until timeout....

example:

$myProcess = exec("tar -xvf /path/veryhugefile.tar /newpath/",$result);

How can I tell PHP to do this in background without interrupting?
Any Idea?

Thanks, Herwig

[Anon]

Very simple, put a & at the end of your command like:

exec("ls -la &");

under unix oses, the & mean "Put in background". Like it run ls -la in background without waiting for the end of the process to continue.