[Users] msg_exec program in background

[Dimo]

Hi,
The new forked shell is defunct, that is correct.
The defunct stays so forever. The program ends but the defunct process
does not, as you said.
After doing this 4 times (my number of children) ser stops responding
to any new messages.

Best,
Dimo

On 1/10/07, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <daniel at voice-system.ro> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 01/10/07 15:19, Dimo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am having trouble with msg_exec. I want it to start the execution of
> > a command which may wait for some time but i do not need openser to
> > wait for the command to end in order to proceed with script execution.
> > I tried this:
> > msg_exec("command &");
> >
> > and this makes openser process hang forever with a defunct child.
> openser should not hang. '&' make the shell to fork a new openser
> process to execute the command, and that becomes defunct when the
> command execution ends.
>
> > Is
> > there any way someone may suggest that i can make openser run a
> > command and not wait for it to end?
> > nohup does not do the trick also.
> Apart of defunct process, does the execution of the command ends? Could
> openser still process new messages?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Dimo
> >
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