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Dealing with stdio

1. figure out the type of stdio handle
2. use it
   * Windows
     + console handle -> ReadConsoleInput / WriteConsoleOutput. Captures keystrokes.
     + (blocking) named pipe -> ReadFile / WriteFile in a thread.
     + (blocking) file handle -> ReadFile / WriteFile in a thread.
     + (overlapped) named pipe server handle -> Igor's patch
     + other options not considered so far: socket, tcp server, overlapped file, overlapped
   * Unix
     + tty -> set to nonblocking, raw mode. Decode vt100, emit keystrokes.
     + file -> use libeio
     + pipe / socket -> set to nonblocking mode. Attach to uv_tcp / uv_pipe handle