Hi, On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:29:28PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 21:18 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > I'd agree on the principle to not leave a nul port for stdin/stdout, > > any other opinion on this? > > I disagree. Translators don't have such ports, and making them null > encourages programs to write on them, possibly expecting that the output > will go somewhere. Well, I'm not sure I entirely understand what is being discussed here; so pardon me if this is a stupid notion: Is there some fundamental reason why (active) translators couldn't actually get real stdin/stdout from the settrans?... -antrik-
