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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:55:11 CST, Warren Hyde wrote: >Warning/Error text always gets sent to file descriptor 2, and not STDERR, >as advertised. The documentation for "warn" and "die" say this: > > warn LIST > Produces a message on STDERR just like `die', but doesn't exit > or throw an exception... > die LIST > Outside an `eval', prints the value of LIST to `STDERR' and > exits with the current value of `$!' (errno)... > >Begging to differ, I assert that the output does NOT go to STDERR, but it >really goes to file descriptor 2, whatever that may be, and whether or not >it is opened as an input or output source. Can you see if this problem persists in 5.6.1-trial2 and report it with a short test case if it does? AFAIK, the only diagnostic output that goes to stderr now is from passing the -D switches to perl. All warnings and errors generated by the script or by perl should go to whatever STDERR is made to point to in the script. (Of course, there are some corner cases like panic messages that need to go to stderr because the interpreter is not even initialized properly, but those aren't "normal".) Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.comThread Previous | Thread Next