Doc #78699 [NEW]: shell_exec on windows runs in text mode, this should be noted in the docs.

From: phpstuff at cresstone dot com Operating system: Windows PHP version: 7.3.10 Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:shell_exec on windows runs in text mode, this should be noted in the docs. Description: ------------ --- From manual page: https://php.net/function.shell-exec --- On windows, shell_exe() & the backtick operator operate in text mode. When I was trying to get binary stdout from a command I encountered incorrect output, and the command I was running gave ‘broken pipe’ messages on its stderr. Any binary output that includes newlines seem to cause errors. The documentation doesn’t mention this, and took me a while to puzzle out what was happening. The work-around is to use popen() with the binary flag: $handle = popen('someCommand.exe', 'rb'); $binarySTDOUT = stream_get_contents($handle); pclose($handle); I wasn’t sure whether to file this as a language bug or just add a comment on the documentation, this report seemed like a good compromise... -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78699&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78699&r=mysqlcfg