Monks,

I recently upgraded from Perl 5.6.1 to Perl 5.8.3 and I am now getting a new warning from IO/File:

Filehandle STDIN reopened as GEN6 only for output at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/IO/File.pm line 70.

This happens because our Perl run harness uses open3() to execute a child process, passing its own STDIN to the child process. It then opens a file for logging output, which ends up getting issued the magic filenumber for STDIN - hence the warning about opening STDIN for output.

I guess I could open up a random file for input, before opening up the output log - but this feels ugly.

Is there a better way to ignore this warning, just in this curcumstance?

Regards & thanks,

Jeff

In reply to New warnings Perl 5.8.3 in IO/File by jaa

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