On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 23:46 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > 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.
Not only is it an option, it seems to be a lot more imminent than I thought. If we can get Rainer's patch for bug 3979 into the next release, I'm guessing we can have a revamped std.process by the release following that. > 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. This is very useful information! I'll see if this can be incorporated in the new std.process. -Lars _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
