[phobos] std.process Windows blocker

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235401%28VS.80%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235351%28VS.80%29.aspx

Andrei

Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:28 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:54 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> 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?
>> Pipes aren't standard C <g>.
> 
> I didn't mean the pipe creation functions. :)
> 
> On POSIX you have fdopen() to wrap a FILE* handle around an OS file
> descriptor, and fileno() to extract an OS file descriptor from a FILE*
> handle.  These are part of the POSIX specification, and therefore
> available regardless of which runtime is being used.
> 
> If I've understood Steve correctly, the same isn't true on Windows.
> Rather, it seems Microsoft have tucked the corresponding functions away
> in their own C runtime. :(
> 
> -Lars
> 
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