• Bill Baxter (10/10) Nov 17 2007 It seems all the dout, derr streams defined in std.cstream throw
• Stewart Gordon (11/18) Nov 18 2007 Annoying purely because you're not used to it, or for some other reason?
• Bill Baxter (12/29) Nov 18 2007 It's annoying because it makes it difficult to write programs and
• Bill Baxter (14/18) Nov 18 2007 Correction: I just realized that dout does *NOT* throw an exception, but...
• Kris (2/6) Nov 18 2007 Aye, it is

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

It seems all the dout, derr streams defined in std.cstream throw 
exceptions if they're unable to write their output.

I find that unexpected and quite annoying.  From my experience such IO 
stream classes for dealing with console IO always just ignore writes if 
there is no console attached.

Is there a good reason for it to behave the way it does?  Or should I 
file a bug on it?

(And Tango folks -- does Stdout in Tango throw exceptions when there's 
no console?)

--bb

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:fhnqbq$1dns$1 digitalmars.com...
 It seems all the dout, derr streams defined in std.cstream throw 
 exceptions if they're unable to write their output.

 I find that unexpected and quite annoying.  From my experience such IO 
 stream classes for dealing with console IO always just ignore writes if 
 there is no console attached.

Annoying purely because you're not used to it, or for some other reason?

 Is there a good reason for it to behave the way it does?  Or should I file 
 a bug on it?

It probably isn't a bug.  If an application can't write to a file or 
external device when it needs to, it's a serious error.  To suppress the 
error in the particular case where it's stdout or stderr you're writing to 
would be an inconsistency.

Stewart.

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Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Stewart Gordon wrote:
 "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
 news:fhnqbq$1dns$1 digitalmars.com...
 It seems all the dout, derr streams defined in std.cstream throw 
 exceptions if they're unable to write their output.

 I find that unexpected and quite annoying.  From my experience such IO 
 stream classes for dealing with console IO always just ignore writes 
 if there is no console attached.

 
 Annoying purely because you're not used to it, or for some other reason?

It's annoying because it makes it difficult to write programs and 
libraries that can be used effectively either in a GUI or Console 
setting.  And, yes, also because C++ doesn't act that way, and it's not 
documented clearly under CFile's docs, so I didn't expect it and others 
probably won't expect it either.

Failing that, I guess if there's a way I can freopen stdout/stderr to 
/dev/null on Windows that will do it.  I'll give that a try.


 Is there a good reason for it to behave the way it does?  Or should I 
 file a bug on it?

 
 It probably isn't a bug.  If an application can't write to a file or 
 external device when it needs to, it's a serious error.  To suppress the 
 error in the particular case where it's stdout or stderr you're writing 
 to would be an inconsistency.

All I know is that cout in C++ doesn't generate an exception when 
writing to cout in a GUI app.  I'm not sure how that happens or at what 
layer, but it doesn't.

--bb

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 It seems all the dout, derr streams defined in std.cstream throw 
 exceptions if they're unable to write their output.



Correction: I just realized that dout does *NOT* throw an exception, but 
derr does.  Whether exceptions should be thrown or not, that seems like 
inconsistent behavior to me.

 Failing that, I guess if there's a way I can freopen stdout/stderr to 
 /dev/null on Windows that will do it.  I'll give that a try.

This does seem to work, for anyone who's interested.

version (Windows) {
     std.c.stdio.freopen("Nul", "w", derr.file);
}

And the exceptions go away.


In the bigger picture it would be nice if I could rebind dout and derr 
to a different Stream so that I could write a GUI StreamLogger class. 
 From the rumblings I hear, I'm guessing that sort of thing is probably 
possible in Tango?

--bb

"Kris" <foo bar.com> writes:

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> wrote
 In the bigger picture it would be nice if I could rebind dout and derr to 
 a different Stream so that I could write a GUI StreamLogger class. From 
 the rumblings I hear, I'm guessing that sort of thing is probably possible 
 in Tango?

Aye, it is