From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T20:57:30+09:00
Subject: Re: closing stderr


"Rudolf Polzer" <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@durchnull.de> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
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> > This routine has a totally different problem: closing $stderr make the
lib
> > function abort because it will get an exception on writing to $stderr.
> > $stderr has to be something that is open.
>
> Then use the StringIO trick from the other posting.
>
> I thought about an external library which is an interface to an
> existing C library which writes to stderr (file descriptor 2).

Even then one shouldt ensure that fd 2 is opened to something unless you
know that the external lib simply doesn't write to stderr if that is
closed.

Regards

    robert