[Haskell-beginners] redirect stdout to /dev/null

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 04:43:25PM -0500, Hong Yang wrote:
> On UNIX, we can easily redirect stdout to /dev/null in a Shell. How is this
> realized in Haskell on both UNIX and Windows?

I'm not sure about Windows, but in Unix you'd close stdout, open /dev/null and
then call dup2() (System.Posix.IO.dupTo) to duplicate the newly opened Fd to
stdout (1).

> I used a library which gave me unwanted stdout display. I tried to find any
> function to hide the stdout output, but could not. Can someone help me out?
> 
> Otherwise I have to modify the code in the library to comment out some print
> commands.

I would strongly encourage you to modify the library.  It can be argued that
it's rather poor library design to not let the user control where output goes.

/M

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