Print detailed information about a stream or a file-number to
the error output. The output of this command is meant for
experts and requires knowledge about the implementation of
streams. It has been added to diagnose leaking streams in
web-servers. For example, on linux systems we can examine
process file-descriptors using
% ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd
If now (say) descriptor 15 is open where it should not be, we
can this command to find the associated Prolog streams and print
as mush as possible information about the stream.
?- stream_info(15).
- Arguments:
-
| Stream | - A stream-handle, alias name, (integer) system
file handle or '<stream>(address)' atom. |