Seems reasonable. On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:09 AM, David M. Lloyd <david.ll...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Roger & co.: > > Since you're already on the topic of manipulating pipes, I thought I'd > mention one very small yet very useful potential enhancement. > > It would be very handy to be able to specify a NULL/bit-bucket > source/destination for pipes. For the target process' input, the user can > generally (I believe) just close the stream, but for output, there isn't > really a good option. While this is possible to achieve by redirecting to > /dev/null on UNIX-likes and NUL (iirc) on Windows, having to do platform > detection to decide where this device is seems overly cumbersome. > > Having a ProcessBuilder.Redirect#DISCARD or similar would be quite useful, > and should be fairly straightforward I think. > -- > - DML >
