From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-06T01:56:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27424] Re: closing of the stderr pipe not detected - 	issue in 1.9.1?

2010/1/5 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>:
> 2010/1/5 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
>
>> 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.

Thank you for the hint!  Why should I do this?  Does Ruby somehow
prevent the stream to be closed in order to be able to deliver error
messages?

Kind regards

robert

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