Am Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:07:26 +0100 schrieb "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladi...@thecybershadow.net>:
> I think the idea is that if you rely on such platform-specific > behavior, you probably shouldn't be using std.process in the > first place - as its goal is to provide high-level cross-platform > abstractions for the most common operations, rather than try to > cover all features exposed by all operating system APIs. Not necessarily. Why do you have to deal with this stuff in std.process in the first place? Because during development of the sockets and file APIs in Phobos noone thought about this issue. It should be a Phobos convention that descriptors are closed on exec by default and changed in the few places where sockets and files are created. Someone who uses Posix APIs directly can thus rely on their behavior and std.process can stay ignorant to this platform difference and avoid ugly hacks. -- Marco
