Spawning a console in Windows (similar to forkpty on linux)

[wobbles via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 13:00:01 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 12:48:16 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 12:26:58 UTC, wobbles wrote:
>>> What I mean is, if the cmd.exe hasnt flushed it's output, my 
>>> cmdPid.stdout.readln (or whatever) will block until it does. 
>>> I dont really want this.
>>
>> Are you sure cmd is the culprit? It should have sensible 
>> buffering. Also do you want just a console window or also a 
>> command interpreter attached to it?
>
> My windows knowledge isnt marvelous, but I believe I'll need 
> the interpreter attached.
>
> Just as an example of running cmd through std.process, running 
> this on my system:
> 	auto pipes = pipeShell("cmd.exe");
> 	write(pipes.stdout.readln);
> 	write(pipes.stdout.readln);
> 	write(pipes.stdout.readln);
>         return;
> will print
> `
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
> (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> `
> and then exits.
>
> However, adding another "write" line before the return; will 
> cause the program to hang there, waiting for the cmd.exe 
> process to flush it's next line.
>
> On Linux, I'm able to edit a file descriptor after I've created 
> it to tell it to read/write asynchronously, I cant seem to find 
> anything similar on windows however.

Spoke too soon. Looks like this is what I need:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/534/An-Introduction-to-Processes-Asynchronous-Process