From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [PATCH 1/2] MSVC: Do not close stdout to prevent a crash
Message-ID: <4ECB4501.1060100@lyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EC80D84.2010202@kdbg.org>



>> To prevent the crash and to prevent git from writing cruft into the patch
>> file, we do not close stdout, but redirect it to "nul" instead.
> A more robust solution is to add invalidcontinue.obj to the linker
> command line. This installs an invalid argument handler that does not
> abort, and restores a sane behavior.

This seems to work only for release builds or did I miss something ?

Is there any argument to not redirect stdout to "/dev/null" on all 
platforms ?

Vincent