On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 09:06:03 -0500, Morbus Iff wrote:
>Not sure what you mean, here. I've been using this code in the
>crossplatform AmphetaDesk [1], and it's been working fine (collecting
>thousands of warnings from a Win32::GUI, IO:: kills, etc.):
>
> # open our log file, turn on autoflush,
> # and then return our selection to STDOUT.
> open (LOG, ">$SETTINGS->{files}->{\"log\"}")
> or die "Couldn't open $SETTINGS->{files}->{\"log\"}: $!";
> select(LOG); $| = 1; select(STDOUT);
>
> # redirect STDERR to our logfile.
> open(STDERR,">&LOG") or
> die "Couldn't redirect STDERR to $SETTINGS->{files}->{\"log\"}: $!";
>
>[1] http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/
Hmm... you're still redirecting STDERR to a file.
What you can't do, is redirect STDERR to a tied filehandle, or to
STDOUT, and hope to capture it all.
The only way is with an actual file.
--
Bart.
