[phobos] Suggestions for std.process

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I plan to throw away all of std.stream.

Andrei

Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
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>> From: Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
>> That sounds like a good idea.  Hm... I read the std.stream code, and I wasn't 
>> aware that Phobos used its own buffering layer in place of C's for everything 
>> but the standard handles.  That is good news!  However, you are still using FILE 
>> * in your code, you should get rid of that (I don't even know where the 
>> File.wrapFile function is).
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> Oh, wow, I just realized there's a std.stdio.File struct.  That needs to be changed.  Having File as a class in std.stream and as a struct in std.stdio is horrible :(
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> In any case, I think you want to use the std.stream File class, not the File struct.  It provides no buffering, and has the appropriate "getHandle" function that would be needed for passing to a child process.
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> -Steve
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