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

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 01:53 +0900, Shin Fujishiro wrote:
> Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <lars at kyllingen.net> wrote:
> > 2. Steve and I have been working on a new version of std.process, which
> > will at some point, hopefully, obviate the need for popen().  See
> > pipeProcess() here:
> > 
> >   http://www.kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/process.html
> 
> I'm looking forward to seeing the result! :-)

Me too. :)


> > The POSIX implementation is more or less complete, but its inclusion in
> > Phobos is currently being blocked by bug 3979.  Also, Steve has run into
> > some very tricky issues with pipes on Windows, fundamentally caused by
> > D's dependence on the DMC runtime.  I don't know how (or if) that is
> > working out.
> 
> Will the new std.process use C stdio?


No, it uses the OS file descriptors/handles directly.

-Lars