From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T07:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: $stderr.reopen bug?

On 10/24/05, nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:24:04 +0900,
> Tanner Burson wrote in [ruby-talk:162357]:
> > I tried this approach first, and it didn't seem to accomplish anything (IRB
> > dump below)
>
> First of all, StringIO is a process internal object, so it
> can't be passed to other processes.
>
Makes perfect sense.  I wasn't aware that I was re-assigning the
STDERR for all processes and not just the current Ruby process. 
Thanks.
> unless f = IO.popen("-")
>   STDERR.reopen(STDOUT)
>   exec "nosuchcommand"
> end
> p f.read #=> "-e:1:in `exec': No such file or directory - nosuchcommand (Errno::ENOENT)\n\tfrom -e:1\n"
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada
>
>


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