On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:34:17AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > There's no equivalent to this? > > my $output = `some_program 2>&1`; > > Where STDOUT and STDERR are combined into one stream, keeping the order > correct.
If there is it's not in the docs. They show things like output_like ( $coderef, $regex_stdout, $regex_stderr, 'description' ); that is 2 regexes stdout and stderr separately. In the case of though darcs though, is Perl just testing the output of commands that have been systemed? If so they could just add 2>&1 to the command line and then ignore stderr, F
