Run child process with null stdin/stdout

David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 18 13:15:40 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 20:00:43 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> For POSIX, seems like you could pass `File("/dev/null", "r")` 
> for stdin
> and `File("/dev/null", "w")`.  On Windows I believe you can use 
> `File
> ("nul")` for the same effect.

Implementing this myself is of course always an option, yes, but 
I would have liked to avoid platform-dependent code.

Hm, I just checked the source, and there doesn't seem to be a 
better option indeed…

Thanks,
David


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