Redirecting stderr stream to a file in MonoTouch

Question

Is it somehow possible to redirect the stderr to a file under MonoTouch?

In Objective-C you can do that with

freopen("file.log", "a+", stderr);

as described here and here.

But how can I do the same thing under MonoTouch?

The Xamarin Docs provide a section Working with the File System but I don't know hot to access the stderr stream from there.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You do it the .NET way using Console.SetError.

OTOH it's often easier to do all your writing directly into your own TextWriter instance.

That will allow you to change the destination of the error output easily between the normal Console.Error, a file or anything else (e.g. Touch.Unit uses a writer that connect to a remove server socket).