It may be returning a negative number which is an error code rather than a
process pointer...
What is $p really?
If it's < 0, use 'man errno' to see what it means.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: popen returns true whether script exists or not?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to popen a cgi script that was designed to be open via a SSI
> include, but cannot because of passing variable restrictions.
>
> I'm popening a cgi script and it is returning a process pointer regardless
> of whether the string passed to it points to anything.
> Is this the expected response?
>
> <?
> $p = popen( "/web/guide/myfiles/bannerzzzzz.cgi","r" );
> ?>
>
> this returns a process pointer even though bannerzzzzz.cgi doesn't exist
>
> I then need to read the results of the cgi script and dump them to the
> screen like so;
>
> <?
> while (!feof ($p)) {
> $buffer = fgets($p, 4096);
> echo $buffer;
> }
> pclose ($p);
> ?>
>
> but this is not functioning, does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Tom Hodder
>
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