Implementing std.log

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/11/11 5:09 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On May 11, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> On 2011-05-10 16:41, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 5/10/11 3:22 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> Are you referring to core.runtime.Runtime.args? That is not completely
>>>> reliable because:
>>>>
>>>> * You can start a new process, with exec, and then pass in whatever you
>>>> want as the first argument to the process.
>>>>
>>>> * If you start an application via a symlink wouldn't that refer to the
>>>> symlink instead of the actual executable?
>>>>
>>>> * Also if you're running an application in a bundle on Mac OS X it would
>>>> refer to the bundle and not the actual executable, if I recall correctly.
>>>
>>> I see. I'll defer ultimate decision on adding getProcessPath to Sean and
>>> Walter. Probably with a little experimentation to clarify motivation,
>>> getProcessPath is a worthy addition.
>>
>> Sean, Walter, is this worth including?
>
> Yes.  Not sure where it should live though.

http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_process.html

Jacob, please write a pull request with documentation (including 
motivation by comparison with core.Runtime.args), unittests, the works, 
and provided the quality is up to snuff we'll make sure we merge it in.


Thanks!

Andrei