I'm sorry you chose to go negative in this thread. The Perl community is supposed to be supportive, not so negative. There are already plenty of online technical forums that consist of mostly flames, let's not go down that road in the Perl community.

Anyway, whether my words quite defined an existing concept or not, it still seems a weird hole in Perl's abilities. You can capture all STDERR as a single scalar; you can send Perl's STDERR to a subroutine, or you can pipe everything to a file or a process (in the form of a named pipe), but you can't send external STDERR to a subroutine. If it's "impossible" so be it, but maybe this situation should be recognized as a need (minor or not) and added to a general Perl wishlist (e.g. this).

In reply to Re^4: Capturing STDERR (this is not a FAQ) by mikosullivan
in thread Capturing STDERR (this is not a FAQ) by mikosullivan

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