Getting the file descriptor of a handle, without closing it

[Volker Wysk]

Am Montag 12 März 2012, 12:31:27 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> On 11/03/2012 01:31, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > However, I want to use it with stdin, stdout and stderr, only.
> 
> Is there some reason you can't just use 0, 1, and 2?

This is complicated. I want to be able to fork a child action, and communicate 
with it through stdin/stdout. I also want to be able to replace the child with 
an external program, and communicate with it through a stdout-stdin pipe. 
Something like this:

  subproc (outm "Durch die Röhre" -|- exec "/bin/cat" [])

I don't rely on stdin/-out/-err still being open. One might be closed, and the 
file descriptor might be reallocated (for a subsequently opened file or 
whatever). I also don't rely on stdin being fd 0, stdout being fd 1, stderr 
being fd 2.

If you really want to know what's going on, here is the documentation:

http://volker-wysk.de/hsshellscript/apidoc/HsShellScript.html#v%3Aexecute_file
 

> > These three
> > should never be garbage collected, should they? I think it would be safe
> > to use unsafeWithHandleFd this way. Am I right?
> 
> I wouldn't do that, but you're probably right that it is safe right now.
> (but no guarantees that it will continue to work for ever.)

So I need a fixed unsafeWithHandleFd, for it to work forever?

I guess, I'll leave it as it is, for now.


Cheers
Volker