[Mono-list] Redirecting stderr to stdout
Colin JN Breame
colin at talkingpixels.co.uk
Tue Feb 7 07:58:53 EST 2006
Consider:
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "gmcs";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "file1.cs file2.cs";
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
p.Start();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
output += p.StandardError.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(output);
The problem with this is that the order of the actual output will be lost.
Theoretically (correct me if I'm wrong) this could also cause a deadlock:
- p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() blocks until StandardOutput is closed.
- the process never closes StandardOutput as it is blocked writing to
StandardError (not entirely sure that this can happen - output buffers
exceeded?).
So, is there a mono way of redirecting stderr to stdout without having to
write a shell script wrapper? Adding 2>&1 to StartInfo.Arguments doesn't
have any effect.
Cheers,
-- Colin
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