re-opening a closed stdin?

Albert Lai trebla@vex.net
25 Nov 2002 22:51:57 -0500


"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:

> It is nice, but it introduces too many problems.  What happens to any
> I/O errors encountered by the lazy I/O?  They have to be discarded,
> which means you can't effectively use lazy I/O for robust applications
> anyway.

Damn, I forgot that "file" means file in the real world, not Platonic
file!  I now agree that it is actually not nice.