A cross-platform Rust library for opening anonymous pipes, backed by
nix on Unix and
winapi on Windows. If anyone
needs it, we could also add support for named pipes and IOCP (using
random names) on Windows, or creating filesystem FIFO's on Unix.
Current API:
pipe() returns two std::fs::File objects, the reading and writing
ends of the new pipe, as the read and write members of a Pair
struct.parent_stdin(), parent_stdout(), and parent_stderr() return
duplicated copies of the stdin/stdout/stderr file handles as
std::process::Stdio objects that can be passed to child processes.
This is useful for e.g. swapping stdout and stderr.stdio_from_file() is a helper function to safely convert a
std::fs::File to a std::process::Stdio object, for passing to
child processes. The standard library supports this conversion, but it
requires platform-specific traits and takes an unsafe call.
Currently there's not really such a thing as a "closed file" in Rust,
since closing requires dropping, but if Rust ever introduces closed
files in the future this function will panic on them.