From: Tanaka Akira Date: 2010-01-06T01:17:00+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:27423] Re: closing of the stderr pipe not detected - issue in 1.9.1? 2010/1/5 Robert Klemme : > I noticed a strange effect: the closing of stderr in the child process > is not detected by the parent. A demo run of the attached scripts > looks like this: Use $stderr.reopen("/dev/null", "w") instead of $stderr.close. -- Tanaka Akira