John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes: >Matt Sergeant wrote: > >> You're absolutely right. It (qmail-queue) reads from STDOUT, not STDERR. > >Minor quibble; qmail-queue reads from fd1, which is typically assigned to >STDOUT. With perl STDOUT and fd1 are quite closely linked. There is a pile of dup logic in doio.c which goes out of its way to keep STDOUT and fd1 identical. There are some messy edge cases which I never got to grips with ... >DJB's newer software that requires multiple datastreams tends to read >from fd5,fd6,etc. > >JohnThread Previous | Thread Next