[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Add lua console handling code for windows.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:24:54 +0100, Pierre Ynard <linkfanel at yahoo.fr>
wrote:
>> +    freopen( "CONOUT$", "w", stdout );
>> +    freopen( "CONOUT$", "w", stderr );
>> +    freopen( "CONIN$", "r", stdin );
> 
> This code is taken from a macro in vlc_interface.h. Couldn't you just
> call the macro?

I am not entirely sure, but I believe freopen() is not thread-safe on
Windows. Then it cannot be called here from a VLC plugin. (If another task
tries to use std* at the same time, it will most probably crash.)

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