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[George Schlossnagle]

On Aug 18, 2004, at 8:20 AM, ophir prusak wrote:

>  I've never had to use real forks in PHP thought I have in Perl.
>  Using the PHP exec command doesn't do "real" forking, it just creates 
> a new process in the background.

How do you think that new process is created?  PHP does:

if(fork() == 0) {
   execve(newProcessExecutable, argv, envp);
}

That's how you create a new process in UNIX systems programming.

George
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