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authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2010-02-05 12:57:37 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-02-05 20:57:16 -0800
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run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be redirected into. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ stderr as follows:
.in: The FD must be readable; it becomes child's stdin.
.out: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stdout.
- .err > 0 is not supported.
+ .err: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stderr.
The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even if it fails to
run the sub-process!