It doesn't matter how often it's used internally, but instead how often
it's used by programs. I use it and find it very useful. We should move
toward fixing it and porting it to other OSs. Replacing with the more
comprehensive solution that's being discussed is of course another option.
Incidentally a colleague of mine mentioned today a much faster
implementation of popen():
http://blog.famzah.net/2009/11/20/a-much-faster-popen-and-system-implementation-for-linux/
http://code.google.com/p/popen-noshell/
We should get that in Phobos.
Andrei
On 08/16/2010 03:11 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
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
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