Network I/O and streaming in D2

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I really think D needs to replace FILE * with it's own buffering 
> scheme.  That way we can control the underlying buffering and have 
> access to it.  We can also take advantage of D features that aren't 
> available in the underlying code, such as thread local storage to avoid 
> taking global locks.

This isn't done because mixing D and C I/O is a desirable property.