At 11:21 AM 6/5/2003, MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote: >Well.. in that case, I'd suppose it's better to dup stderr to /dev/null >(even better - the apache error_log) rather than closing stderr. If the >intention is to avoid children from writing to stderr, we ought to dup it so >that we know when a *real* error message is being printed.
That is what Apache has traditionally done (at least in 1.3 and I believe in 2.0 as well.) Bill
