[Haskell-cafe] Replacing stdin from within Haskell

[Neil Davies]

Thanks

That is what I thought. I'll stick with what I'm doing at present which is to use temporary files - don't want to get into separate processes which I then have to co-ordinate.

Cheers

Neil

On 9 Jun 2011, at 17:01, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 07:40, Neil Davies <semanticphilosopher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone out there got an elegant solution to being able to fork a haskell thread and replace its 'stdin' ?
> 
> File descriptors/file handles are per process, not per thread, on
> (almost?) every OS ghc supports.  You'll need to create a full
> subprocess.