Hi Luca, On 06/11/2011 10:46 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:57:10PM +0200, Christian Siefkes wrote:I use Gio to read files line by line, as in the example at https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GIOSamples#Reading_Text_File_Line_by_Line . I would like to support the frequent Unix convention that '-' as filename means "read from standard", but I didn't find a way to convert a FileStream (stdin) to an InputStream. Can anyone tell me how to do it?You can create a unix input stream with fd 0.
Yes, I could do that, thanks for the hint. But if I do that, my program
would no longer work (or even compile) on non-Unix systems, while
FileStreams and the standard variables, stdin|out|err, work everywhere (even
though they are rarely used outside Unix). So maybe I'll better switch
to working with FileStreams instead of Gio.
On the other hand, Gio has a nicer API and the neat property of being able
to directly work with URLs as well as with local files (if you call
File.new_for_commandline_arg(...)). Hmm...
Best regards
Christian
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