From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-05-27T02:31:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15768] Re: Disabling stderr

>     I've got a adequate fix that will work for me for now, but i'd really
> like to see this behavior controllable thru the ruby api.  What i've done is
> wrap the call to 'rb_eval_string'...
>      freopen( "nul", "a", stderr );
[...]
> > > nulFile = File.open('nul', 'w')      # UNIX: nulFile =
> > > File.open('/dev/null', 'w')
> > > STDERR = nulFile

Why don't you do STDERR.reopen "/dev/null","w" ?

matju