Redirecting standard streams in Windows

[Alexander Zhirov]

On Tuesday, 18 July 2023 at 22:09:40 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 July 2023 at 21:31:54 UTC, Alexander Zhirov 
> wrote:
>>     HANDLE h_stdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
>>     WriteConsoleW(h_stderr, str.ptr, cast(DWORD)str.length, 
>> NULL, NULL);
>
>
> If you checked the return value of this call, you'd find it 
> fails since WriteConsole only works if the output is, in fact, 
> a console.
>
> You need to use WriteFile when it is redirected, which you can 
> detect with GetFileType to see if it is a character device or 
> not.

Just found 
[this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45805785/why-cant-i-redirect-output-from-writeconsole) on the net. Hmm... I didn't know that Windows has its own nuances in working with threads. Thanks for the tip.