Does it make sense to have separate switches for `stdin` and `stdout`, as 
opposed to just "the standard streams"?

Or does CloudABI support `stderr`?


================
Comment at: include/__config:735-741
@@ -734,2 +734,9 @@
 
+// CloudABI is intended for running networked services. Processes do not
+// have standard input and output channels.
+#ifdef __CloudABI__
+#define _LIBCPP_HAS_NO_STDIN
+#define _LIBCPP_HAS_NO_STDOUT
+#endif
+
 #if defined(__ANDROID__) || defined(__CloudABI__)
----------------
jroelofs wrote:
> EricWF wrote:
> > jroelofs wrote:
> > > EricWF wrote:
> > > > What I like about `_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_MONOTONIC_CLOCK` and 
> > > > `_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_THREADS` is that they must be explicitly defined be the 
> > > > user. We don't automatically provide those configurations by way of the 
> > > > `__config` header. I like this because those flags make libc++ become a 
> > > > non-conforming standard library.
> > > > 
> > > > Along the same vein I'm not sure I like `__config` having configuration 
> > > > paths that make libc++ non-conforming. I understand why this is done in 
> > > > the case of `__CloudABI__` and I'm not objecting. I just want to air my 
> > > > uneasiness. 
> > > > What I like about _LIBCPP_HAS_NO_MONOTONIC_CLOCK and 
> > > > _LIBCPP_HAS_NO_THREADS is that they must be explicitly defined be the 
> > > > user.
> > > 
> > > I can see the reasoning behind it, but this is really inconvenient for 
> > > me. The problem is that it's not reasonable to expect my users to 
> > > `#define` these things, so locally I added a `<__config_site>` that 
> > > `#define`s `_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_MONOTONIC_CLOCK` and `_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_THREADS`, 
> > > which is `#include`d at the top of `<__config>`.
> > > 
> > > I didn't realize this before, but I think the best way forward here would 
> > > be to have cmake generate the `<__config_site>`, and stick it in an 
> > > `include` dir in the build directory. Then at install time, have it copy 
> > > that file to the install dir. This would have the added benefit of making 
> > > the `-D_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_THREADS=1` things in `config.py` go away. 
> > > 
> > > How does that sound, @ericwf?
> > I like the idea of that but I'm not sure it helps fix this problem per se 
> > since it still allows for implicit non-conforming configurations (although 
> > I greatly sympathize with the rational for it) I would want to run it by 
> > @mclow.lists first. I've thought about this before and my main concern is 
> > that it would make reproducing bugs a lot more difficult because every user 
> > has a different `<__config_site>` header. 
> > 
> > Perhaps we allow for a `<__config_site>` header to be used, but we only 
> > ever provide an empty one with a big comment at the top warning users about 
> > modifying it. Then if somebody really needs one of these configurations 
> > they can go take the time to manually fill it out with the required 
> > definitions. This would make it trickier to use the header in a regular 
> > build/test workflow though.
> This would be something that is completely generated from the cmake configure 
> line. I don't think it would change the repro steps at all because we'd 
> already have to know what their configure line was.
> 
> The added benefit here is that it would keep a record on the end user's 
> system of what flags their libc++ library was built with.
That sounds promising. 

Like @ErikWF, I am leery of making it convenient for users to (inadvertently, 
easily) build non-conforming versions of libc++ - for no reason other than the 
support questions/bug reports that filter back to us.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D8340

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