Cool Beans... I am finishing a Web Hosting control panel in php and perl and getting ready to start looking through php's source code. I've had some other workarounds since that one. I found host headers not working correctly with fopen on Win32. Also, is_dir not recognizing directories and stat not recognizing files (or something like that... can't recall now) -----Original Message----- From: Bug Database [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug #8465 Updated: Cannot exec, system, passthru, backticks ID: 8465 Updated by: sniper Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Status: Duplicate Status: Closed Bug Type: Program Execution PHP Version: 4.0.4 Assigned To: Comments: This is fixed in CVS. Wait for PHP 4.0.6 to be released. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-01-03 11:11:53] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duplicate of 4761 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-28 18:17:14] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "echo" is not a command under windows, rather something built into the shell (cmd.exe). Hence the error message is correct - you can't run a command that doesn't exist. You should use something like "cmd /c echo hello world". I'll do us both a favour and ignore your other comments --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-28 17:27:44] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <?php print `echo hello world`; ?> I have tried exec, backticks, system, passthru, and they all do not work. When running the CGI version, there is no message displayed. When running the isapi version, I get the error message "Warning: Unable to fork [echo hello world] in c:inetpubwwwroothorus.atlantic.nettest.php on line 3". It seems that this has been going on for a while now. "CreateProcess" is a very simple Windows API call. If PHP is going to beat ASP, this needs to be resolved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=8465&edit=2 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]