[phobos] std.process Windows blocker

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:54 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> 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.

This is not really related to your question, but your wording makes me
curious:  Is D on Windows somehow tied to DMC?  Is that different to
standard C?


> 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 *. [...]

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?

-Lars