Re: How To Redirect STDERR to /dev/null programmatically

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:03:34PM +0530, Harsha Kodnad wrote:
>     Anybody please tell me how to direct my application's STDERR to /dev/null programmatically. in a C 
> program.

freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr);

>     I want to inhibit all warnings or errors generated by my application or shared libraries I am using by 
> doing this at my program initialization.

If we are talking about Gtk+, GLib, etc., you can also set
up a log handler for their messages with g_log_set_handler()
that doesn't actually print anything anywhere.

Yeti


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