Re: lua bug - loadfile gets stdin confused

[roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)]

> IIRC, the reason the original poster was closing stdin not for daemonization,
> but because on windows, keeping a file open can interfere with other processes
> ability to read/write the file. So not allowing std* to be closed solves one
> problem, but creates another.

Yes, but the problems are different. The first one is a bug, the second
one is a restriction. A buggy implementation is not a good solution to
any problem.


> I'd like to make the case that support for the ANSI C freopen() is what's
> needed here.

We may add freopen (actually, as an ANSI C facility, it deserves to be
in iolib), but we still must correct the problem of accessing a closed
stdin (even after a reopen).

-- Roberto