std.process.system asynchronous? or win cmd line oddity?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> Is std.process.system asynchronous? Is it supposed to be? Is execv known 
> to trick the windows command-line into giving control back to the user?
>

Also, do either of those have any sort of known gotchas regarding redirected 
stdio/stderr/etc? I'm getting some odd cases of missing text in my editor's 
cmd-line output window when I'm messing around with rdmd. Not sure if it's 
just a bug with my editor or not.

> I've been playing around a bit (on windows) with rdmd, which uses system() 
> heavily (and also execv for running a newly-compiled program), and I 
> frequently get text appearing (such as a compiler error message or results 
> from a program being rdmd'd and run) *after* I get keyboard control back 
> with a new prompt. Which is weird.
>
> It's going to take a little more work to whittle it down to a good test 
> case, but I thought I'd ask if anyone knew something already.
>