[racket] current-subprocess-custodian-mode

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Norman Gray wrote:

> On 2013 Feb 15, at 00:30, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
>> At Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:38 +0000, Norman Gray wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> What I _want_ to do here is basically execv(3) vi from a Racket program.
>>> [...]
>>
>> The `system' function uses threads as needed to pump from
>> non-file-stream ports to the subprocess, but probably that's not what
>> you want to run `vi'.
>>
>> Getting the original stdin, stdout, and stderr is unsafe from Racket's
>> perspective (which wants to allow a program to control the ports that a
>> sandboxed program can reach, for example). You could use the FFI to get
>> those ports, though.
>
> That's more than I'd want to get involved with in this case, for what is basically a quick utility program.
> [...]

Hello,

perhaps it would be an option to open /dev/tty in order to obtain a fresh 
handle to the current controlling terminal that could then be passed on to 
an external process' standard input, output and/or error.

Of course that solution is only portable to *nix systems.

Ciao,
Thomas


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