Formal Review of std.process

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 16:50:15 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> <quote>
> Unless a directory is specified in args[0] or program, 
> spawnProcess
> will search for the program in the directories listed in the 
> PATH
> environment variable. To run an executable in the current 
> directory,
> use "./executable_name".
> </quote>
>
> This does not apply for Windows, so it should state that.

It does apply to Windows.  It just isn't necessary to do it 
within std.process, as Windows' own CreateProcess() takes care of 
it.

It is a bit imprecise, though, because CreateProcess() does in 
fact search a lot of other directories first (current working 
dir, parent process dir, system32, etc.).  In fact, PATH is last 
on that list. ;)  I'll clarify this in the documentation.

Lars