Re: Fw: Re: mod_perl closes apache's stdin and/or stdout

[Stas Bekman <suppressed>]

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > > Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > > But which file to open as a place holder? In this example I use
> > > > /dev/null and it works as you wish. AFAIK, windows doesn't have
> > > > /dev/null, unless you run on cygwin.
> > > Of course, it does, but it has the classic MS-DOS name of "NUL"
> > > present in the context of any directory (so \dev\nul works if you
> > > have a dev directory.)
> > I guess this can be ifdef'ed then.
> >
> > Bill, so /dev/null and NUL should cover all grounds Apache runs on, or
> > are there other odd cases? And if so do you have a better idea for a
> > file to open that will work everywhere? [also notice that it has to be
> > rw - and if not, we need two files then, one for < and another for >,
> > otherwise open will fail.
>
> AFAIK - suppressed might be an interesting collection of folks to ask.

Hopefully someone here has an equivalent or a better knowledge.

Thanks for your help, Bill

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