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Asynchronous shell exec in PHP
Is there a way to use shell_exec without waiting for the command to complete?
I want to run a quite slow / complex program which takes at least 10 minutes to complete. I want to call this via shell_exec or something similar, but I dont want the php script to wait for the completion of this program.
is thing something I can do? and if so how can I do that?