From: Tom Spilman <tspilman@...>
Date: 2001-05-27T04:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15771] Re: Disabling 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" ?

    Yea reopen would be the better way if that were the method i'd chosen.
I'm testing ruby for possible embedding into our game and i was trying to
find a way to disable stderr output for compiler errors at the C/C++ level
and not within the script itself.  'rb_eval_string_protect' as Guy Decoux
suggested does exactly what i was looking for.  Tom

"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.3.96.1010526133330.2769A-100000@relayer...
> >     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
>
>