[Mediawiki-l] Properly killing an invoked external program?

Daniel Barrett danb at VistaPrint.com
Mon Nov 19 17:54:42 UTC 2007


Unfortunately this did not prevent gnuplot.exe from hanging.  I have
also noticed latex.exe hanging in the same way at times.

DanB

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Thanks! I'll report back on whether this worked or not. So far it's done
no harm....

DanB

-----Original Message-----
Platonides wrote:

$abort = ignore_user_abort(true);
shell_exec()
ignore_user_abort($abort);




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