Plüm wrote: > > I wouldn't say that it is a no-op on Unix. Some logger programs might > expect an open stderr, even if this points to /dev/null. So I am not in > favour of this patch. Besides I understood that we no longer support > Win9x. So why making an exception here? > IMHO if things do not work correctly on Win9x, bad luck.
I don't disagree. I raised it to point out why I deliberately neglected it. I went over your other observations, thank you for pointing out the issues with the patch. New one incoming. Bill