From ed22b3640725a56e99f22e21ae0e4c588fa74a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Starling <tstarling@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:26:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use STDERR instead of fopen('php://stderr') when possible

---
 maintenance/Maintenance.php | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maintenance/Maintenance.php b/maintenance/Maintenance.php
index 452acf4772..27da73e02e 100644
--- a/maintenance/Maintenance.php
+++ b/maintenance/Maintenance.php
@@ -225,9 +225,13 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	 * @param $die boolean If true, go ahead and die out.
 	 */
 	protected function error( $err, $die = false ) {
-		$f = fopen( 'php://stderr', 'w' ); 
-		fwrite( $f, $err . "\n" );
-		fclose( $f );
+		if ( php_sapi_name() == 'cli' ) {
+			fwrite( STDERR, $err . "\n" );
+		} else {
+			$f = fopen( 'php://stderr', 'w' ); 
+			fwrite( $f, $err . "\n" );
+			fclose( $f );
+		}
 		if( $die ) die();
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1