[phobos] std.process and unbuffered I/O (again)

[SHOO]

I am one waiting expectantly for your contribution.

Perhaps I think that UnbufferedTransports meets that purpose.
I think that it is necessary to define specialized Unformatter(or 
ByLine?) to treat strings.

BTW, In unbuffered stream, AFAIK, the handling of the character string 
is very difficult. For example, you must perform reading by 1 byte for 1 
line input. This is very inefficient reading.
What do you think about this?

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SHOO

(2011/01/04 7:14), Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> Ok, now that bug 3979 is out of the way, there is, as far as we know,
> only one thing standing in the way of finalising the design of
> std.process, and that is the lack of unbuffered I/O in Phobos.
>
> std.process needs a type akin to File, but without the buffering, for
> handling pipes.  So I wrote a new one, which I called UnbufferedFile.
> There was a debate about this on this list a while ago, in which Andrei
> seemed to oppose the idea of having a separate type for that purpose,
> and instead argued that File should be changed to allow unbuffered I/O.
> I didn't really get a clear impression of others' opinions.  And now the
> recent proposal for a streaming API has been thrown into the mix.
> (Should pipe ends be UnbufferedTransports, perhaps?  I don't even know
> how std.stdio.File will relate to the streaming module.)
>
> What do you think, folks?
>
>
> -Lars