On 07.05.2010 17:24, muhr wrote: > > Hello Alan > > > Alan McGovern wrote: >> >> Could you not just use Stream.Null? >> > > The point is that the string is not fixed to "/dev/null" in the real > application. It could also name a regular file. It's just that if I'm not > interested in this information, I would like to specify "/dev/null". > > Of course, the easy hack would be to check the filename for "/dev/null" and > then programmatically switch between FileStream or Stream.Null. But this > problem made me curious whether it is a problem with Mono or whether I'm > just using it wrong.
It's a problem with Mono's shared handles. You can disable them with MONO_DISABLE_SHM=1 mono yourapp.exe Upcoming Mono versions will disable them by default anyways. Robert _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
