[phobos] popen/pclose and bug 3157

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 02:14 -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
> > I just updated the patch that Lars created to address a major problem with popen
> > support in std.stdio.  His version handles the first problem, the requirement
> > that a popened fd be closed via pclose rather than fclose.
> > 
> > His patch doesn't address my second issue with popen/pclose, which is getting
> > the exit code from pclose back to the caller.  I don't like what I just did.  In
> > fact, I hesitated quite a bit before sending out this email.  It's, well, fugly,
> > but works until a better solution can be found.
> > 
> > I know that a major rework of std.process is a work in progress.  What's the
> > state of it?  I have a need, right now, for being able to execute a command and
> > getting back both it's output and its exit code.. and it needs to work on all
> > platforms.
> 
> The current status is that the POSIX version works, and has done so for
> a while.  Its incorporation in Phobos, and development of the Windows
> implementation, has been blocked by a DMD bug which is now fixed in SVN.
> 
> So I guess the next steps will be
>   1. Wait for next DMD release, which will contain aforementioned fix.
>   2. Finish up Windows version.
>   3. Code review and hopefully acceptance in time for following release.
> [ 4. Deprecation and subsequent death of File.popen(). ;) ]
> 
> -Lars

Would you point me to the docs for the new version?

Thanks,
Brad