all OS functions should be "nothrow @trusted @nogc"

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/25/2017 11:50 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 7/25/17 11:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> About http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/read.2.html, there's just a 
>> bit of wrapping necessary:
>>
>> nothrow @trusted @nogc
>> ssize_t read(int fd, ubyte[] buf)
>> {
>>      return read(fd, buf.ptr, buf.length);
>> }
>>
>> (btw void[] doesn't work)
>>
> [snip]
>> A suite of safe wrappers on OS primitives might be useful.
> 
> Great idea! Should it be a package on its own, or should we put the 
> wrappers inside the original files?
> 
> That is, do we make
> 
> core.sys.safe.posix.unistd: read
> 
> or do we make
> 
> core.sys.posix.unistd: safe_read
> 
> ?
> 
> My preference is for the former, since it's very nice to have a pristine 
> copy of the header file.

Same here. I'd preserve the function name though. -- Andrei