HELP - Redirect output of already running process?

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Wed Jun 5 16:58:18 EDT 2002


"Patrick R. McManus" <mcmanus at ducksong.com> writes:

> Actually under some circumstances it can be done by attaching with gdb
> and reopening stdout.. Its not unlike highwire walking.
> [snip]

That looks useful; thanks. I've added it to my tips & tricks collection
at http://www.abreau.net/howto/

You said "under some circumstances"; can you expand on that? When
would it *not* work?


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