redirecting to another url after a long exec command 1

[keak]

Hi there,

I have a follwoing code segment in php

exec ("some long linux command to execute");
header ("Location:[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/thankyou.php");[/URL]

I was wondering if there is a way to have the linux command in exec to run in the background and instantly redirect the user to thankyou.php?

Currently, the thankyou.php only shows up after the time consuming linux command has executed.

Any input on this will be great !

 

[vacunita]

Straight from the php..net online manual:

http://mx.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

Note: If you start a program using this function and want to leave it running in the background, you have to make sure that the output of that program is redirected to a file or some other output stream or else PHP will hang until the execution of the program ends.

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