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Re: How to capture stderr of dos process running in bash shell??


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> But that is clearly not the case here since stdout and stderr are being
> bypassed and text is still showing up on the screen.  That is not a symptom
> of stdout/stderr being attached to a pipe.
> 
> Although, hmm, on rereading it isn't clear that the output shows up on
> the screen.  It sounds like the DOS program just might not differentiate
> between stdout and stderr.

  I checked: you can't redirect its error output at all, even in a genuine
cmd.exe shell with cygwin having nothing to do with it.  It must indeed be
using the console directly.  <checks imports>  Curiouser and curiouser... it
links msvcrt.dll and imports printf and wprintf, but then it goes and actually
does everything the hard way with lowlevel console i/o in unicode.  How peculiar.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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