[Mono-bugs] [Bug 81729][Nor] Changed - Console.Read(Line) doesn't block for winexe's

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Changed by robertj at gmx.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81729

--- shadow/81729	2007-05-25 06:10:00.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/81729.tmp.21184	2007-05-25 08:47:32.000000000 -0400
@@ -47,6 +47,21 @@
 
 
 ------- Additional Comments From rolfkvinge at ya.com  2007-05-25 06:09 -------
 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't monow.exe windows only?
 
 I'm having this problem both on Windows and Linux.
+
+------- Additional Comments From robertj at gmx.net  2007-05-25 08:47 -------
+You're right, of course. Since you didn't mention the OS, I simply
+assumed Win32, where this issue is originating from.
+
+There are 2 ways to solve the this under unix: closing stdin
+when the main assembly's target is "winexe". This has the drawback
+that p/invoked unmanaged libs relying on stdin might break.
+
+The 2nd way is to solve this in managed code (using a NullStream
+in Console.cs) with the drawback that p/invoked unmanaged libs
+could still block the app while trying to read from stdin.
+
+(IMHO, we should not introduce this limitation in unix at all).
+