note Anonymous Monk <P><I>because re-opening STDERR decouples perl's STDERR from the called C library's STDERR </i> <P>It will probably work if you save/dup STDERR and restore it <C> open my $errsave, '>&', STDERR or do { print "couldn't dup STDERR: $!"; exit 2; }; open STDERR ... ... open STDERR, '>&', $errsave or do { print "couldn't restore/dup STDERR: $!"; exit 2; }; </c> 929318 930629 0