//! This is an example of how to use `dup2` to replace the stdin and stdout //! file descriptors. #[cfg(not(windows))] fn main() { use rustix::io::{dup2, pipe}; use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader}; use std::mem::forget; // Create some new file descriptors that we'll use to replace stdio's file // descriptors with. let (reader, writer) = pipe().unwrap(); // Acquire `OwnedFd` instances for stdin and stdout. These APIs are `unsafe` // because in general, with low-level APIs like this, libraries can't assume // that stdin and stdout will be open or safe to use. It's ok here, because // we're directly inside `main`, so we know that stdin and stdout haven't // been closed and aren't being used for other purposes. let (mut stdin, mut stdout) = unsafe { (rustix::io::take_stdin(), rustix::io::take_stdout()) }; // Use `dup2` to copy our new file descriptors over the stdio file descriptors. // // These take their second argument as an `&mut OwnedFd` rather than the // usual `impl AsFd` because they conceptually do a `close` on the original // file descriptor, which one shouldn't be able to do with just a // `BorrowedFd`. dup2(&reader, &mut stdin).unwrap(); dup2(&writer, &mut stdout).unwrap(); // Then, forget the stdio `OwnedFd`s, because actually dropping them would // close them. Here, we want stdin and stdout to remain open for the rest // of the program. forget(stdin); forget(stdout); // We can also drop the original file descriptors now, since `dup2` creates // new file descriptors with independent lifetimes. drop(reader); drop(writer); // Now we can print to "stdout" in the usual way, and it'll go to our pipe. println!("hello, world!"); // And we can read from stdin, and it'll read from our pipe. It's a little // silly that we connected our stdout to our own stdin, but it's just an // example :-). let mut s = String::new(); BufReader::new(std::io::stdin()).read_line(&mut s).unwrap(); assert_eq!(s, "hello, world!\n"); } #[cfg(windows)] fn main() { unimplemented!() }