From a825ec10d12818801009d4f45fae8605e3bb8a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ad Schellevis <ad@opnsense.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 16:01:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ass sendBackgroundEvent to Backend class

---
 .../mvc/app/library/OPNsense/Core/Backend.php        | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/library/OPNsense/Core/Backend.php b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/library/OPNsense/Core/Backend.php
index 41b3c325d..11f88a6b0 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/library/OPNsense/Core/Backend.php
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/library/OPNsense/Core/Backend.php
@@ -88,4 +88,16 @@ class Backend
 
         return $resp;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * send event to backend, but prefix & to force it to run in background
+     * @param string $event event string
+     * @param int $timeout timeout in seconds
+     * @return string (message uuid from configd)
+     * @throws \Exception
+     */
+    public function sendBackgroundEvent($event, $timeout = 120)
+    {
+        return $this->sendEvent('&'.$event, $timeout);
+    }
 }