Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Kevin D. Clark
> <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I think that a lot of effort could be put into solving this problem
> > with these constraints...or...the problem could be solved simply with
> > a small temporary file that parent+child agreed to use.
> ...
> > I'm a big fan of "simple".
>
>   I am, too, and you may well be right.
>
>   OTOH, this may be one of those things that, once solved, produces a
> technique that is useful in many situations.

Like "use stdio for parent/child comms, and make the user-interaction channel
the one that's explicitly passed from parent to child"?

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