Re: Redirecting standard output

[Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>]

>>> On Posix systems, we use a pipe to read from subprocess's STDOUT.  You
>>> cannot do the same with STDERR, but you can redirect STDERR to a
>>> temporary file, and then read it when the subprocess exits.
>>
>> That is news to me. I've redirected STDERR to a pipe many times in other programs. Why can't it be done in Emacs?
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the call to `pipe' produces only 2
> file descriptors on each end.  So you can have either stdout or stderr
> of the subprocess, or both of them together, but not both of them
> separately.

You can call `pipe' more than once; the trouble comes when you have to
choose which one to read from to avoid blocking the process.  Probably
it's just that no one has bothered to implement it carefully enough with
`select' or so.

Davis

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