Re: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR

STDERR is not necessarily the same thing as file descriptor 2 (and it isn't after you do *STDERR = *OLDERR;). For commands executed by system, file descriptor 2 is stderr. They have no knowledge of the file descriptor associated with your program's STDERR variable.

Replace
*STDERR = *OLDERR;
with
open STDERR, ">&OLDERR";

Update: s/3/2/g. Thanks nobull.

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Re^2: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR by nobull (Friar) on Dec 16, 2006 at 16:31 UTC
STDERR is not necessarily the same thing as file descriptor 3 s/3/2/ In recent Perl there's no need to use package variables for file handles to achieve this. `open my $olderr, '>&', \*STDERR or die $!; #... open STDERR, '>&', $olderr or die $!;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Suppress/Reactivate STDERR by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 16, 2006 at 18:07 UTC
Re: 2 vs 3 -- Thanks, typo! Re: lexical file handles -- True. I just went along with the code that was already there. Lexicals can be used for file handles since Perl 5.6.0.	[reply]