Oddly enough, I went through this process just yesterday. Small world.

In my case, select didn't do the trick because I was calling a C shared object via SWIG that didn't obey my orders (and wouldn't shut up about it.) Instead, I used an old perlopentut trick which ended up looking a bit like this:

open(SAVEOUT, ">&STDOUT");
open STDOUT, ">>$serverdir/ss_log";
my $result = SmartSockets::projpoll($server_name);
print "Connection to smartsockets updated.\n";
close STDOUT;
open(STDOUT, ">&SAVEOUT");

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It's not to be used other than as a last resort, but in this case the last resort was the only one that worked.

In reply to RE: It's friday, I can't think. (CMonster: redirect STDOUT) by CMonster
in thread It's friday, I can't think. by Pearte

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