c popen won't catch stderr
I'm trying to use popen() to catch the stderr of a call, but of course it doesn't seem to be doing that. Any ideas? My code looks more or less like this: popen("nedit", "r"); But I'm getting all this garbage about non-utf8 on my screen... popen gives you a file handle on a process' stdout, not its stderr. Its first argument is interpreted as a shell command, so you can do redirections in it: FILE *p = popen("prog 2>&1", "r"); or, if you don't want the stdout at all, FILE *p = popen("prog 2>&1 >/dev/null", "r"); (Any other file besides /dev/null is acceptable as well.) If you want to discard