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Re: [ID 19991102.004] closing STDERR confuses perl's warn & die

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From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
November 2, 1999 15:14
Subject:
Re: [ID 19991102.004] closing STDERR confuses perl's warn & die
Message ID:
199911022319.PAA30759@activestate.com
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 23:41:27 +0100, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
>     1  open(STDERR, '>std.err');
>     2  warn "test #1";
>     3  close STDERR;
>     4  open(STDERR, '>std2.err');
>     5  warn "test #2";
>     6  die "fatal";
>     7  close STDERR;
>
>when ran produces two files:
>
>    -rw-r--r--   1 ram      users          23 Nov  2 23:30 std.err
>    -rw-r--r--   1 ram      users           0 Nov  2 23:30 std2.err
>
>The first contains
>
>     1  test #1 at bug line 2.
>
>as expected. The second one is empty!

FYI, not so in 5.005_62.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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