Catch STDERR

Hi,

I am executing exec('some cool command', $stdout, $exitcode);

That is fine. I get what I in the beginning wanted. However, now I need to
catch the STDERR that the command is generating as well. Some of you might
tell me to redirect STDERR to STDOUT, but that is not possible as I need to
use the STDOUT as is to automate a process.

I know I can do fwrite(STDERR, 'Output some error\n');

So could I fread(STDERR, SOMESIZE)?

Is there anyone with experience of best way of doing this? Should I maybe
use proc_open or something similar and then write it to a file, and then
read that file? Hrm, doesn?t make any sense to do that.

Best regards,
Peter Lauri
 
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