Re: Feature request/wishlist: allowing external processes to accept input in script mode

[D Goel]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> "D Goel" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Now we call the above bash script from an emacs script, in various
>> ways:
>>
>> ----
>> #!/usr/local/bin/emacscvs --script
>>
>>
>> (setq a (call-process "y-or-n-p-my" nil t  t "Question"))
>
> You explicitly tell that input for the process should come from /dev/null,
> so this works as expected.

I certainly agree with that. I supplied nil for infile above.
My question is: what argument can I supply as infile so that when the
external process expects an input, it actually accepts input from
stdin?

As far as I can tell, infile can only be a file, or nil.