From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: any PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Output Control Bug description: Can php close STDOUT Would someone tell me how to close STDOUT? I would like to do some jobs like <? system("/usr/local/bin/php -q jobs.php"); ?> because I don't want it to wait for jobs.php done. I see system() manual and know to redirect jobs.php's output should be ok! I tried system("..... > /dev/null") but fail (reasonable) but I can't close STDOUT in job.php if in perl, I can do # job.php -> job.pl #!/usr/bin/perl close(stdout); but I don't know how to close/redirect STDOUT in php. (I've search general maillist for this!) -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=12803&edit=1 -- 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]