• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (30/30) May 28 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12815

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12815

          Issue ID: 12815
           Summary: Dummy file
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: Phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: maximzms gmail.com

It would be nice to have a file similar to stdout or stderr that does nothing,
say, stdnull.
It is useful when one needs to suppress some output (e.g. when --silent flag is
sent to the program).

On Linux the following code does the trick:
--------------------
File stdnull;

static this()
{
    version(Posix)
    {
        stdnull = File("/dev/null", "w");
    }
}
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What about other systems?

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