Redirection of stderr

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <536 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>>In article <524 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>>>#define fdup2(A,B)	(memcpy(B,A,sizeof(FILE)))	/* UGLY */
>>Not only that, it does not work---because there is no guarantee that
>>a FILE object holds the state. [...]
>works just swimmingly for me, though! :-)

You're lucky, and probably don't close either of them, which
closes both of them, regardless of whether a FILE object holds
the state, because the kernel is now free to unlink the file.

				--Blair
				  "What I need is a real-time,
				   networked, 28 MIPS, tuna melt."