Creating a "virtual" stdin/stdout/stderr

[Colin Grogan]

On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 20:25:42 UTC, Colin Grogan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to create my own File in memory that I can pipe output 
> to and read it in from another part of the program. I dont want 
> to physically write data to disk, just store it in memory.
>
> I've been trawling the documentation for the past while and the 
> closest I can find is std.stdio.tmpfile(), however this always 
> opens in "rb" and therefore isnt useful for me (I think!)
>
> The reason I need to be able to make a File is because I want 
> to send these IOstreams to std.processes spawnProcess().
>
> Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?
>
> Thanks in advance!

I should have specified, this is std.stdio.File, not
std.stream.File.