LOST in a PIPE

[mike at bria.commodore.com]

In an article, athena.mit.edu!jik (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
|  Ah, but wait, there's a trick!  You can do this:
|1. Create a pipe.
|2. Fclose(stderr).
|3. Fdopen() the write end of the pipe and assign the return value to stderr.

Why not simply dup the stderr to stdout prior to the popen()?

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