in reply to Re^2: Reset STDERR to console
in thread Reset STDERR to console

It would have been accurate to say that the IO handles for STDERR and STDOUT are assigned to the same device rather than that one IO handle is assigned to the other.

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Re^4: Reset STDERR to console
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 01, 2011 at 19:33 UTC
    Not really. STDOUT and STDERR default to be the same as the parent's STDOUT and STDERR respectively. There is no relation to devices.
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