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Subject: VMS C SYS$OUTPUT
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 13:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 13:39:00 1987
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I have been using VAX C version 2.3 to write a program designed to be run
as a detached process.  It runs fine, but VAX C insists on opening
SYS$OUTPUT and SYS$ERROR even though the program does not do any output.
There are no Output functions used in the program and when I run it /detached
it creates files called SYS$OUTPUT. and SYS$ERROR.  Is there a way around
this? Is main() doing this? I can close the files with fclose(stdout) and
fclose(stderr) but that still leaves me with useless files in my directory.

So it seems that stdout and stderr are opened by default (which makes sense
for interactive processes, but I need to find a way to prevent them from
being opened.

Any suggestions...????