new std.process and "Win/DMC runtime issues"?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:49:33 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> The limitations of the current std.process are getting to be a big pain 
>> in
>> my ass for script-style programs. Last I heard, the new std.process was
>> blocked by "issues with the DMC runtime prevent it from working on 
>> Windows".
>>
>> What's up with that? Any news or any specifics? And more hopefully: Any
>> workarounds to the windows issue so I could at least grab it and use it
>> pre-acceptance-into-phobos?
>
> I had a pull request into dmc, Walter said that he would merge it after 
> this past release of dmd.  I did not see any emails, but looking at dmc, 
> it looks like it's updated!  Don't know why I missed that email, maybe I 
> glossed over it...
>
> But here's the kicker :)  Building DMC is impossible (partly because its 
> closed source, and partly because it requires obscure tools you can no 
> longer obtain).
>
> So we still have to wait for a release of DMC (or for D's version of 
> snn.lib to be updated to include the fix).
>

Ahh, fantastic, so progress has been made, and it sounds like it's nearly 
ready :)

> Specifically, the issue is with pipes and EOF.  Since everything in D uses 
> FILE *, so does the new std.process (not the best choice IMO, but we have 
> no choices in this (yet) ).  But DMC's FILE * treats an EPIPE error as a 
> EBADF, meaning the FILE* sets its error flag vs the EOF flag.
>
> This means for instance, if you piped off a process to transform a file, 
> and read it's stdout to completion, std.stdio.File would throw an 
> exception.
>
> The fix checks for the specific error and translates it to EOF.  It's 
> somewhat of a hack, but it works.
>

Interesting, thanks.

> If you are interested, I have a patched snn.lib with the fix in place if 
> you want to try out the new version of std.process.  Send me an email.
>

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