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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: stdin and stdout
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:56:00 -0700
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 20/07/2015 19:19, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>>> I thought there might be a function that returned the values or a
>>> pointer to them.
>>
>> There's no standard function that does this -- nor is there anything
>> stopping you from writing such a function yourself.
>
> How? (Other than solutions based on passing special files/paths to fopen.)

#include <stdio.h>

FILE *stdin_func(void)  { return stdin; }
FILE *stdout_func(void) { return stdout; }
FILE *stderr_func(void) { return stderr; }

I don't know enough about what you're doing to know whether that's a
solution.

[snip]

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