[phobos] std.process Windows blocker

[Walter Bright]

Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:54 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
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>> Everyone,
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>> I worked on getting Lars' std.process compiled for Windows.  However, I've reached a very big blocker.
>>
>> Basically, the digital mars C runtime library has no way to create pipes into file descriptors.  Therefore, you cannot redirect a child's output to the parent or vice versa.
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>
> This is not really related to your question, but your wording makes me
> curious:  Is D on Windows somehow tied to DMC?

Yes. It has to be tied to a C compiler.

> Is that different to standard C?
>   

No. Standard C does not cover an ABI.

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>> I can create pipes by directly calling the Windows system call, the problem is, the C runtime lacks a way of wrapping a Windows HANDLE type into a FILE *. [...]
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> You'd think that would be a common enough situation to warrant having a
> function in the Windows API doing just that -- like POSIX' fdopen().  I
> mean, isn't FILE* the de facto file handle standard in the C world?
>
>   

Pipes aren't standard C <g>.