[phobos] popen/pclose and bug 3157

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/9/10 6:43 CDT, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> I did consider it, but for completeness that would mean not just one,
> but two more forms of pipeProcess() and execute().  Example:
>
>    // Already there:
>    execute(command)
>    execute(exe, args)
>
>    // Add these?
>    execute(command, env)
>    execute(exe, args, env)
>
> It just seemed a bit too much for what I believed to be a rare need.  If
> there is a real need for this, though, I don't have any problems with
> adding it.

How would people who do have such a need achieve it without the added 
primitives? If they can't, probably you need to add them.

Perhaps you can consolidate the functions by using a default argument 
for env.


Andrei