Why are the exec* functions deprecated in std.process?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Oct 29 16:42:08 PDT 2013


On 10/29/13 3:07 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
...
> I suspect that these functions were only included in Windows to satisfy
> POSIX requirements (which they fail to do).
>
> We should discourage their use on Windows, and one way to do this is to
> *not* have a nice cross-platform interface to them in Phobos.

Well argued. I'm okay with moving this to a posix-specific module and 
mentioning it in std.process.

Andrei



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