The documentaton says that freopen closes the original stream. Wouldn't that mean, that it is not possible to restore the origianl stderr/stdout?
On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 4:52:57 AM UTC+2, mattn wrote: > > I guess calling freopen is better because cgo possibly having reference of > stdin/stdout as FILE*. > > > On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:07:40 PM UTC+9, Markus Zimmermann wrote: >> >> I feared that there would be no pure Go solution. Anyway, I used fdopen >> variant the code is here >> https://github.com/zimmski/osutil/blob/master/capture.go#L51 if anyone >> every stumbles over this thread. >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 1:00:46 PM UTC+2, Uli Kunitz wrote: >>> >>> Your program doesn't work because changing os.Stdout and os.Stdin has no >>> effect on stdio stdin and stdout. Stdio stdout will still reference fd 1 >>> and stderr fd 2. >>> >>> I recommend following three solutions: >>> >>> >>> 1. The simplest approach could be not to use cgo at all and run the >>> C code in a separate process. Capturing the output of a separate process >>> is >>> simple and can be done using the os/exec package. >>> 2. Reset stdin and stdout using fdopen in the C code. This could be >>> done permanently. >>> 3. Swap file descriptors using dup2. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.