[suPHP] SuPHP recursive forking

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Try using putenv() in your PHP scripts.  Note that to unset an
environment variable, you use putenv("VAR"), not putenv("VAR=").
(Because apparently the PHP folks would rather implement something
bizarre than just use unsetenv(3)).

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:38:44AM -0400, J.D. Tysko wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your reply.
> 
> I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm a little unclear how I
> can unset those CGI specific variables *after* forking since I'm using
> system() and like commands which do the fork on their own.  The only
> thing I can think of is using the "temporary" environment variables
> (like: system("PATH_INFO= PATH_TRANSLATED php --version");) but that
> could end up being quite a long command line.  Is there another way and
> can you give a code example?
> 
> Thanks,
> J.D. Tysko
> Software Engineer
> BCS Engineering
> >
> > When PHP is called and the CGI specific environment variables (like
> > PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED, etc.) are set, PHP executes the script
> > specified by this environment variables and not the script specified
> > on the command line.
> >
> > Therefore after forking, before executing another instance of PHP you
> > have to unset all the CGI environment variables in order to make PHP
> > execute the right script.
> 
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