popen and pclose. Something changed in 4.4.2 !

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

Works now...

Allow Apache service in windows "to interact with the desktop" !

Rgds

Venkat
venkymadurai@googlemail.com 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