diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/io/process.rs b/src/libstd/rt/io/process.rs
index a5750211b49..ae087099d1f 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/io/process.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/io/process.rs
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ pub struct ProcessConfig<'self> {
     ///     0 - stdin
     ///     1 - stdout
     ///     2 - stderr
-    io: ~[StdioContainer]
+    io: &'self [StdioContainer]
 }
 
 /// Describes what to do with a standard io stream for a child process.
diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/uv/process.rs b/src/libstd/rt/uv/process.rs
index a039bbc9fc0..f0d0afeb6aa 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/uv/process.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/uv/process.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ use prelude::*;
 use cell::Cell;
 use libc;
 use ptr;
-use util;
 use vec;
 
 use rt::io::process::*;
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ impl Process {
     ///
     /// Returns either the corresponding process object or an error which
     /// occurred.
-    pub fn spawn(&mut self, loop_: &uv::Loop, mut config: ProcessConfig,
+    pub fn spawn(&mut self, loop_: &uv::Loop, config: ProcessConfig,
                  exit_cb: uv::ExitCallback)
                     -> Result<~[Option<~UvPipeStream>], uv::UvError>
     {
@@ -62,12 +61,12 @@ impl Process {
                                                        err);
         }
 
-        let io = util::replace(&mut config.io, ~[]);
+        let io = config.io;
         let mut stdio = vec::with_capacity::<uvll::uv_stdio_container_t>(io.len());
         let mut ret_io = vec::with_capacity(io.len());
         unsafe {
             vec::raw::set_len(&mut stdio, io.len());
-            for (slot, other) in stdio.iter().zip(io.move_iter()) {
+            for (slot, other) in stdio.iter().zip(io.iter()) {
                 let io = set_stdio(slot as *uvll::uv_stdio_container_t, other,
                                    loop_);
                 ret_io.push(io);
@@ -126,9 +125,9 @@ impl Process {
 }
 
 unsafe fn set_stdio(dst: *uvll::uv_stdio_container_t,
-                    io: StdioContainer,
+                    io: &StdioContainer,
                     loop_: &uv::Loop) -> Option<~UvPipeStream> {
-    match io {
+    match *io {
         Ignored => {
             uvll::set_stdio_container_flags(dst, uvll::STDIO_IGNORE);
             None
diff --git a/src/libstd/run.rs b/src/libstd/run.rs
index d5f8e82b90f..40b509c4bc8 100644
--- a/src/libstd/run.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/run.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use comm::{stream, SharedChan};
 use libc::{pid_t, c_int};
 use libc;
 use prelude::*;
-use rt::io::native::process;
+use rt::io::process;
 use rt::io;
 use rt::io::extensions::ReaderUtil;
 use task;
@@ -122,8 +122,24 @@ impl Process {
      */
     pub fn new(prog: &str, args: &[~str], options: ProcessOptions) -> Process {
         let ProcessOptions { env, dir, in_fd, out_fd, err_fd } = options;
-        let inner = process::Process::new(prog, args, env, dir,
-                                          in_fd, out_fd, err_fd);
+        let env = env.as_ref().map(|a| a.as_slice());
+        let cwd = dir.as_ref().map(|a| a.as_str().unwrap());
+        fn rtify(fd: Option<c_int>, input: bool) -> process::StdioContainer {
+            match fd {
+                Some(fd) => process::InheritFd(fd),
+                None => process::CreatePipe(input, !input),
+            }
+        }
+        let rtio = [rtify(in_fd, true), rtify(out_fd, false),
+                    rtify(err_fd, false)];
+        let rtconfig = process::ProcessConfig {
+            program: prog,
+            args: args,
+            env: env,
+            cwd: cwd,
+            io: rtio,
+        };
+        let inner = process::Process::new(rtconfig).unwrap();
         Process { inner: inner }
     }
 
@@ -136,7 +152,9 @@ impl Process {
      * Fails if there is no stdin available (it's already been removed by
      * take_input)
      */
-    pub fn input<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Writer { self.inner.input() }
+    pub fn input<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Writer {
+        self.inner.io[0].get_mut_ref() as &mut io::Writer
+    }
 
     /**
      * Returns an io::Reader that can be used to read from this Process's stdout.
@@ -144,7 +162,9 @@ impl Process {
      * Fails if there is no stdout available (it's already been removed by
      * take_output)
      */
-    pub fn output<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Reader { self.inner.output() }
+    pub fn output<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Reader {
+        self.inner.io[1].get_mut_ref() as &mut io::Reader
+    }
 
     /**
      * Returns an io::Reader that can be used to read from this Process's stderr.
@@ -152,18 +172,20 @@ impl Process {
      * Fails if there is no stderr available (it's already been removed by
      * take_error)
      */
-    pub fn error<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Reader { self.inner.error() }
+    pub fn error<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut io::Reader {
+        self.inner.io[2].get_mut_ref() as &mut io::Reader
+    }
 
     /**
      * Closes the handle to the child process's stdin.
      */
     pub fn close_input(&mut self) {
-        self.inner.take_input();
+        self.inner.io[0].take();
     }
 
     fn close_outputs(&mut self) {
-        self.inner.take_output();
-        self.inner.take_error();
+        self.inner.io[1].take();
+        self.inner.io[2].take();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -186,9 +208,9 @@ impl Process {
      * were redirected to existing file descriptors.
      */
     pub fn finish_with_output(&mut self) -> ProcessOutput {
-        self.inner.take_input(); // close stdin
-        let output = Cell::new(self.inner.take_output());
-        let error = Cell::new(self.inner.take_error());
+        self.close_input();
+        let output = Cell::new(self.inner.io[1].take());
+        let error = Cell::new(self.inner.io[2].take());
 
         // Spawn two entire schedulers to read both stdout and sterr
         // in parallel so we don't deadlock while blocking on one