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.
>>>
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>
>>

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