Re: make 3.81 MinGW port and testsuite working with MSYS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:14:32 -0500
> Cc: Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
> Alessandro's point is that my suggested "improvement" is using Perl's
> open() with a pipe and redirection rather than using system, so no shell
> would be invoked.

Sorry, I missed that.

Does Perl have an explicit redirection operator or function?  If it
does, we could redirect stderr to stdout _before_ the call to open(),
and that should do the trick, right?