This may be OT, inasmuch as it's not gentoo-specific. It's here because my system runs Gentoo and I don't know where else to ask. If it annoys, just point me in the right direction to where it will not be OT, please.
I'm trying to write scripts to help me grade student submissions in a systems programming course. Students are just learning about malloc/free and some are floundering. I'm seeing lots of errors that are caught by glibc (with some help from compiling with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), but I would like instead to capture those messages in a file. It appears that glibc does not use stdin or stderr for these messages, since I cannot redirect them. I suspect they are being sent to /dev/tty. Is there any wizardry that would allow capture of these messages? I know that somehow the script(1) command captures such stuff, but it's not useable since I want all of this scripted and ironically script(1) does not seem to play nice with scripts. I also know that this is about to tip me into the abyss of session leaders and controlling terminals, but I'll try to be brave. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
