See Catching fork() with tied STDERR for one possible approach to this, and some discussion of the problems you might face if you take this approach. For your example you'd need to change the PRINT function in my tie class to something like:

  sub PRINT {
    my $self = shift;  # the tied STDERR object
    errhandler(@_);
  }

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You could then wrap the call to the external function something like:

  tie *STDERR, 'My::Tie::Class';
  SomeModule::do_something();
  untie *STDERR;

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Hugo

In reply to Re: Catch messages to STDERR by hv
in thread Catch messages to STDERR by Räuber Hotzenplotz

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