From: Steven Parkes <smparkes@...>
Date: 2010-01-16T08:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How to know if $stderr is reopened to /dev/null

> Hi, how could I know if $stderr has been redirected to /dev/null?

On anything sufficiently Unix-like, you could fstat the filehandle and stat the path (/dev/null) and check the major and minor device numbers.