Further investigation shows that druntime does indeed have the LFS declarations. :)
-Lars On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 14:29 +0200, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote: > Though I agree with you, the fix for the popen-close bug is utterly > simple regardless of whether FILE* is used. The problem is that it > requires adding more POSIX-only stuff, which I assume we wish to avoid. > > > Speaking of std.stdio.File and FILE*, I noticed that Phobos actually > does have buffered I/O that doesn't depend on FILE* in std.stream. I'm > not saying we should keep std.stream, but at least we have something we > could build a native D implementation of std.stdio.File from. > > I seem to recall someone (David?) saying it has some bugs with large > files on Linux, but I think that's just a matter of enabling the > kernel's LFS API. (If I'm not mistaken, it's simply a matter of adding > declarations to enable the kernel's LFS syscalls to druntime, along with > a version() statement to enable or disable them. Then, people who want > large file support can just compile Phobos with that enabled. > > Also, I think FILE* has the same problem... > > -Lars > > > > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 04:38 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote: > > Yet another reason to get rid of FILE * dependency. Any modern i/o library > > with > > opaque reference types uses methods which know how to close it. > > > > -Steve > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <[email protected]> > > > To: Phobos mailing list <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 4:11:01 AM > > > Subject: [phobos] Removing std.stdio.File.popen() > > > > > > I just noticed that std.stdio.File.popen() is POSIX-only. Taking that > > > into account, along with the fact that it is buggy (issue 3157), does > > > anyone mind if I remove it? > > > > > > It's only used once in Phobos, namely in std.process.shell(), which is > > > easily implemented by using core.sys.posix.stdio.popen() together with > > > core.sys.posix.stdio.fdopen() and std.stdio.File.wrapFile(). > > > > > > -Lars > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > phobos mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > phobos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
