[phobos] popen/pclose and bug 3157

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 13:52 -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 02:14 -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
> > > I know that a major rework of std.process is a work in progress.  What's the
> > > state of it?  I have a need, right now, for being able to execute a command and
> > > getting back both it's output and its exit code.. and it needs to work on all
> > > platforms.
> > 
> > The current status is that the POSIX version works, and has done so for
> > a while.  Its incorporation in Phobos, and development of the Windows
> > implementation, has been blocked by a DMD bug which is now fixed in SVN.
> > 
> > So I guess the next steps will be
> >   1. Wait for next DMD release, which will contain aforementioned fix.
> >   2. Finish up Windows version.
> >   3. Code review and hopefully acceptance in time for following release.
> > [ 4. Deprecation and subsequent death of File.popen(). ;) ]
> > 
> > -Lars
> 
> Would you point me to the docs for the new version?


Sure:

  http://kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html

-Lars