http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5190

           Summary: std.stdio should have File.fdopen
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: d-bugzilla@autark.se


--- Comment #0 from Per Ångström <d-bugzilla@autark.se> 2010-11-09 01:24:31 PST ---
As far as I can tell, struct File in std.stdio does not have a direct way to construct a File object from a low-level file descriptor, à la fdopen.

I ran into this issue when using fork and pipe to create a pipe between two processes; having started a child process I wanted to parse the child's standard output using high-level File functions, and for that purpose I wanted to create a File object from a file descriptor.

After some head-scratching, I was finally able to work around the issue by extern-declaring fdopen and using the sparsely documented File.wrapFile function (which is labelled "unsafe") to construct a File object, but that was inconvenient and obscure.

Implementing fdopen in File would make systems programming with Phobos easier.

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Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> 2011-05-24 20:34:36 PDT ---
fdopen is declared in core\sys\posix\stdio.d

It seems there's at least one function which uses it:
D:\DMD\dmd2\src\phobos\std\stdio.d:2540:        FILE* fp = enforce(fdopen(s,
"w+".ptr));

Hope that helps in any way!

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