>>> Background: I have a third party library (that I am not allowed to change) >>> that logs to a file in Debug mode. I want to see this log output directly >>> in the Xcode console, because transferring log files from the iPhone is too >>> complicated. The library provides an API to set the file path >>> (unfortunately not a file handle or something else). > > Is there any way that could find the file descriptor for that log file, close > it, fdup it to 3 (stderr)???
Great, thanx! That works like a charm. Access to the file descriptor is exposed through some preprocessor macros in the header of the library. So now I just grab this file descriptor and do a dup2(STDERR_FILENO, fileDescriptor); Problem solved. Thank you, Mani -- http://mani.de - friendly software _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
