Re: Texinfo 7.0.94 on native Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
> Cc: GavinSmith0123@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:11:33 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > For 'popen' and 'pclose', one needs the gnulib modules 'popen' and 
> > > 'pclose',
> > > respectively.
> > 
> > Windows has _popen and _pclose, which can be used instead.
> 
> _popen uses text mode, not binary mode, by default, AFAIK. This can be
> problematic.

_popen accepts a MODE argument which can be used to control that, see

  
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/popen-wpopen?view=msvc-170

We use this in the stand-alone Info reader, for example, in this
snippet from info/filesys.c:

  stream = popen (command, FOPEN_RBIN);