[phobos] Removing std.stdio.File.popen()

[David Simcha]

On 8/16/2010 8:29 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> Though I agree with you, the fix for the popen-close bug is utterly
> simple regardless of whether FILE* is used.  The problem is that it
> requires adding more POSIX-only stuff, which I assume we wish to avoid.
>
>
> Speaking of std.stdio.File and FILE*, I noticed that Phobos actually
> does have buffered I/O that doesn't depend on FILE* in std.stream.  I'm
> not saying we should keep std.stream, but at least we have something we
> could build a native D implementation of std.stdio.File from.
>
> I seem to recall someone (David?) saying it has some bugs with large
> files on Linux, but I think that's just a matter of enabling the
> kernel's LFS API.  (If I'm not mistaken, it's simply a matter of adding
> declarations to enable the kernel's LFS syscalls to druntime, along with
> a version() statement to enable or disable them.  Then, people who want
> large file support can just compile Phobos with that enabled.
>
> Also, I think FILE* has the same problem...
>
> -Lars
>    

I know std.stdio.File is buggy as anything for >2GB on 32-bit (and also 
just generally buggy).  See bugs 3409, 3410, 3425.  I also know 
std.stream had some, but I never filed them b/c I figured it was going 
to be deprecated anyhow.  IIRC as of about October of last year it would 
just stop reading after 2GB on Linux.