Dear Monks
I have a problem with a module which uses IPC::Open2. Normally this module works but when I wrap it in the following code it doesn't: 
my $module = MyModule->new() ;
...
my $out = '' ;
{ local *STDOUT ;
   local *STDERR ;
   open (STDOUT,">>", \$out) ;
   open (STDERR,">>", \$out) ;
   $module->process() ;
}
....

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This will make sure that everything printed by $module is redirected to $out.
Here is what's going on in MyModule
use IPC::Open2 ;
....
sub process {
..
   my $pid = open2( *Reader, *Writer, "some_prog" );
   print Writer "$some_options" ;
   my @prog_out = <Reader> ;
   close Writer;
   close Reader;
   ..
  return @output ;
}

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Everything printed by some_prog is now redirected to $out and not to @prog_out. Any suggestions how to fix this ?

Cheers
LuCa

ps the main code is part of a cgi script, so I need to catch everything printed by $module, because it is not part of what the users want to see!

Update:sorry tye, you're right. You've said it to me before!! The problem was that there were other modules involved which did things like
print STDOUT "....." ;

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I've fixed this and now I can do
open OUT,">>", \$out ;
select OUT; $| = 1 ;

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Thnx!!

In reply to Problem with IPC::Open2 when STDOUT/STDERR are redirected by jeanluca

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