Re: Re: Re: How do I redirect STDERR to a subroutine?

[samtregar]

I don't know much about Win32, but it sounds like STDERR is broken there. On Linux STDERR is virtually never broken unless you break it yourself. And if you do, there'll be hell to pay. Not too long ago I helped a co-worker track down a very difficult bug; in the end it turned out that he'd effectively closed STDERR and wasn't seeing the simple error message that would have helped him find the problem.

-sam

[DaWolf]

Sorry, but I have to disagree again.

STDERR, AFAIK, is working perfectly on ActivePerl 5.8.0 on my Win2k box. The app I've mentioned writes to a log file and I get all sorts of error when things go wrong.

I know Windows isn't perfect (at all) but people should have a little more faith on things running on it, instead of expecting them to go wrong just because it's a Win32 environment... Please, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to be rude, but I think any generalization is bad.

I agree with you when you say that STDERR shouldn't be "muted", but then again neither I or the OP were suggesting this (if I ever do please kill me), we just want to redirect STDERR so we can treat it before displaying it, if I understood him correctly.

Background: When I say "we" referring to me and the OP, it's because of my node: Formatting STDERR.

Best regards,