getting buffered output from exec?

[D. Alvarado]

Hello, I am running PHP 4 on Apache 1.31 for Fedora Core 2 Linux. I
run a process

exec("/bin/sh $my_script", $output, $return);

that takes about 15-20 seconds but produces multiple lines of output
throughout. Is there some way I can display the output as it comes
out as opposed to waiting until the process has finished and then
displaying the results?

Thanks, - Dave

[Colin McKinnon]

D. Alvarado wrote:

Hello, I am running PHP 4 on Apache 1.31 for Fedora Core 2 Linux. I
run a process

exec("/bin/sh $my_script", $output, $return);

that takes about 15-20 seconds but produces multiple lines of output
throughout. Is there some way I can display the output as it comes
out as opposed to waiting until the process has finished and then
displaying the results?

Thanks, - Dave

use proc_open and flush?

HTH

C.

[Chung Leong]

"Colin McKinnon" <co**************@andthis.mms3.com> wrote in message
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D. Alvarado wrote:

Hello, I am running PHP 4 on Apache 1.31 for Fedora Core 2 Linux. I
run a process

exec("/bin/sh $my_script", $output, $return);

that takes about 15-20 seconds but produces multiple lines of output
throughout. Is there some way I can display the output as it comes
out as opposed to waiting until the process has finished and then
displaying the results?

Thanks, - Dave

use proc_open and flush?

HTH

C.

Just popen() should do. Then use fgets() to read each line.