On 28 Jul 2015, at 01:28, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> wrote:
> Seems reasonable. Agreed. -Chris. > 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 >>
