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[David Mintz]

Thanks everybody, this is all good stuff to think about.

I think saving to a db and using cron might be overkill because this isn't
something that's gonna happen more than once every few days, and at
irregular intervals, and it isn't going to be more than maybe 150, 200
emails at one shot, at least not in the forseeable future.

But I asked for advice and sound advice is what I got, in terms of
efficiency, security and (oh no, the S-word) scaleability, so thanks
again.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 drydell at att.net wrote:

> Just as an aside, it's possible to fork a detached php process, all you need to do is turn off stdin and stdout (and you should trap output/errors to a log):
>
> exec("/path/to/php /your/script.php 2>>/your/logfile.log >&- <&- >>/your/logfile.log");
>

That's what I'm doing (I think). Although -- correct me if I'm wrong -- I
believe technically that ain't true forking, as in pcntl_fork().


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