Dear monks,
I am trying to capture the STDERR from a process I'm launching with
system(). I thought I had it all figured out by doing:
use IO::Handle;
my @logmessages;
my $stderr = IO::Handle->new;
$stderr->autoflush( 1 );
$stderr->fdopen( fileno( STDERR ), 'r' );
system( 'command', 'with', 'args' );
while( defined( my $line = $stderr->getline ) ) {
push @logmessages, $line;
}
$stderr->close;
# now do something useful with @logmessages
However, things seem to get stuck in the
while loop. What am I doing wrong? What's the canonical way to capture STDERR (I know, I know, TMTOWTDI so I may not need the canonical way, just one that works).
Thanks!