Hey there i just managed something that i never accomplished beforei
kill a httpd process from PHP,
i run the following code

<?
  $slen=strlen($enc);
  for ($i=0;$i<$slen;$i=$i+2) {
   $swap=$enc[$i];
   $enc[$i]=$enc[$i+1];
   $enc[$i+1]=$swap;
  }
?>

$enc is a string and has an even length

This silly lines of code make the apache child process crash, if i
change it to

<?
  $slen=strlen($enc);
  for ($i=0;$i<$slen;$i=$i+2) {
   $swap=$enc[$i];
   $swap2=$enc[$i+1];
   $enc[$i]=$swap2;
   $enc[$i+1]=$swap;
  }
?>

it works well.
what the hell is happening here?

i run php 4.04pl1 as apache module under linux.