From: Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T21:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: closing stderr

Scripsit illa aut ille �Robert Klemme� <bob.news@gmx.net>:
> "Rudolf Polzer" <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@durchnull.de> schrieb:
> > 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.

write() to a closed FD fails, but most libs ignore the error. If
they don't, however, it needs to be reopened to something like
/dev/null which isn't possible in a platform-independent manner.


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