redirecting stderr/stdout AFTER a program has been started

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:38, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Can it be done?

I doubt it. Unless the program is written to intercept, say, a signal,
that somehow communicates to it that the change is wanted. The main
problem is that some I/O to the file is buffered in the program.
Changing this without the program's knowledge would surely lead to
corruption. Hence, a signal that lets the program know this and be a
part of the change would be needed.

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