Yes, I'm aware that's how system is implemented. My point was more of doing the STDERR redirect after the fork but before the exec so that it wasn't changed for the parent. It seems, however, that John is using windows which doesn't support fork properly, so it's kind of pointless. :-) So I guess you would just have to redirect STDERR, do the system call, and then restore STDERR. *shrug*

Update: See my other reply.

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