I actually work with bayruds, and we were sharing this code snippet, but I'm having a slightly different problem with this. The deep recursion is only showing up in Perl-5.8.0. Previous versions do not have this problem.

Secondly, we're using the Filter::Handle module to split STDERR to both a logfile and to the terminal. For this I have been using (until switching to Perl-5.8.0) the following code snippet: 

use Filter::Handle qw/subs/;
## $LOG_FH is a FileHandle reference...
Filter \*STDERR, 
  sub { local $_ = @_;
        if (defined $LOG_FH) {print $LOG_FH "STDERR: $_";}
        $_ 
  };

## Need a signal handler to capture warnings from carp 
## and warn which are not captured by Filter::Handle 
## (but by capturing ourselves and printing to STDERR, 
## they do get picked up by Filter::Handle)...

$SIG{__WARN__} = sub
                 {    local $_ = "@_";
                      print STDERR $_;
                 };

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I don't want to just tie STDERR to the $LOG_FH filehandle, I want to print to both STDERR and the filehandle.

Beginning with Perl-5.8.0, any output to STDERR, either explicitly or from Perl (e.g. uninitialized variable) results in a deep recursion error. Any thoughts about this?? Why is this happening only in Perl-5.8.0?
thanks,
-Cadphile

In reply to Re: Filter::Handle - Deep Recursion Error by cadphile
in thread Filter::Handle - Deep Recursion Error by bayruds

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