From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T05:26:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you temporarily turn off STDERR ??

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> This comes up often enough that I wonder if allowing IO#reopen to take a
> block would be a good idea:
>=20
> $stderr.reopen('/dev/null') do
>    # Code here redirects to /dev/null
> end
>=20
> # Code outside the block behaves normally
>=20
> I thought this idea had been brought up before, and that there was some
> downside to this, but I can't find any references to it now.
>=20
> Thoughts?


Can't handle threading sanely, for one.

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