Re: [PATCH] Redirect stderr to a pipe before redirecting stdout to stderr

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Christian Couder schrieb:
> With this patch, in the 'start_command' function after forking
> we now take care of stderr in the child process before stdout.
> 
> This way if 'start_command' is called with a 'child_process'
> argument like this:
> 
> 	.err = -1;
> 	.stdout_to_stderr = 1;
> 
> then stderr will be redirected to a pipe before stdout is
> redirected to stderr. So we can now get the process' stdout
> from the pipe (as well as its stderr).

Makes sense. All current users of .stdout_to_stderr don't modify the
stderr channel, so this patch should not make a difference.

But please also adjust Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt because
it documents the behavior that you are modifying.

-- Hannes