[fpc-pascal] POpen en PClose

Marco van de Voort fpc at pascalprogramming.org
Mon Jul 20 16:19:06 CEST 2026


Op 20-7-2026 om 15:13 schreef Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal:
>>
>> So popen/pclose are a more high level (FILE * using) part of libc, 
>> while we tend to only use the basis.
>
> Ah, so that means that I couldn't just call naively into libc popen 
> with FileRec.Handle ?
>
Indeed.   And FILE* is opague and thus target specific,  it would mean 
another structure to maintain, and to somehow to determine for a new 
*nix target. STAT and STATFS already give us grief enough.


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