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Bind std handles to AllocConsole()
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void BindCrtHandlesToStdHandles(bool bindStdIn, bool bindStdOut, bool bindStdErr) | |
{ | |
// Re-initialize the C runtime "FILE" handles with clean handles bound to "nul". We do this because it has been | |
// observed that the file number of our standard handle file objects can be assigned internally to a value of -2 | |
// when not bound to a valid target, which represents some kind of unknown internal invalid state. In this state our | |
// call to "_dup2" fails, as it specifically tests to ensure that the target file number isn't equal to this value | |
// before allowing the operation to continue. We can resolve this issue by first "re-opening" the target files to | |
// use the "nul" device, which will place them into a valid state, after which we can redirect them to our target | |
// using the "_dup2" function. | |
if (bindStdIn) | |
{ | |
FILE* dummyFile; | |
freopen_s(&dummyFile, "nul", "r", stdin); | |
} | |
if (bindStdOut) | |
{ | |
FILE* dummyFile; | |
freopen_s(&dummyFile, "nul", "w", stdout); | |
} | |
if (bindStdErr) | |
{ | |
FILE* dummyFile; | |
freopen_s(&dummyFile, "nul", "w", stderr); | |
} | |
// Redirect unbuffered stdin from the current standard input handle | |
if (bindStdIn) | |
{ | |
HANDLE stdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); | |
if (stdHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) | |
{ | |
int fileDescriptor = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)stdHandle, _O_TEXT); | |
if (fileDescriptor != -1) | |
{ | |
FILE* file = _fdopen(fileDescriptor, "r"); | |
if (file != NULL) | |
{ | |
int dup2Result = _dup2(_fileno(file), _fileno(stdin)); | |
if (dup2Result == 0) | |
{ | |
setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// Redirect unbuffered stdout to the current standard output handle | |
if (bindStdOut) | |
{ | |
HANDLE stdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); | |
if (stdHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) | |
{ | |
int fileDescriptor = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)stdHandle, _O_TEXT); | |
if (fileDescriptor != -1) | |
{ | |
FILE* file = _fdopen(fileDescriptor, "w"); | |
if (file != NULL) | |
{ | |
int dup2Result = _dup2(_fileno(file), _fileno(stdout)); | |
if (dup2Result == 0) | |
{ | |
setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// Redirect unbuffered stderr to the current standard error handle | |
if (bindStdErr) | |
{ | |
HANDLE stdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE); | |
if (stdHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) | |
{ | |
int fileDescriptor = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)stdHandle, _O_TEXT); | |
if (fileDescriptor != -1) | |
{ | |
FILE* file = _fdopen(fileDescriptor, "w"); | |
if (file != NULL) | |
{ | |
int dup2Result = _dup2(_fileno(file), _fileno(stderr)); | |
if (dup2Result == 0) | |
{ | |
setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// Clear the error state for each of the C++ standard stream objects. We need to do this, as attempts to access the | |
// standard streams before they refer to a valid target will cause the iostream objects to enter an error state. In | |
// versions of Visual Studio after 2005, this seems to always occur during startup regardless of whether anything | |
// has been read from or written to the targets or not. | |
if (bindStdIn) | |
{ | |
std::wcin.clear(); | |
std::cin.clear(); | |
} | |
if (bindStdOut) | |
{ | |
std::wcout.clear(); | |
std::cout.clear(); | |
} | |
if (bindStdErr) | |
{ | |
std::wcerr.clear(); | |
std::cerr.clear(); | |
} | |
} |
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