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

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Le lundi 3 mars 2008, Shawn O. Pearce a écrit :
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I'm in favor of this patch.  My series to add sideband support
> to send-pack/receive-pack (aka push) needed it for the hooks.

Now that you say it, I remember having seen your patch, so please take 
ownership of this patch.

Thanks,
Christian.