The new std.process is ready for review

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:45:54 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:


> a while ago (2008 or 09 I believe?), I was using Tango's Process object  
> to execute programs on a remote agent, and forwarding all the resulting  
> data back over the network.  On Linux, I used select to read data as it  
> arrived.  On Windows, I think I had to spawn off a separate thread to  
> wait for data/child processes.

More coming back to me now -- Windows pipes actually suck quite a bit.   
You can't use the normal mechanisms to wait for data on them.

I also needed to spawn threads so I could combine the event-driven wait  
for socket data from the remote instance with the data from the pipes.  I  
seem to remember opening a socket to my own process in order to do this.

-Steve