Parrot and STDOUT/STDERR

Hi,

In my efforts to embed parrot into perl I stumbled upon something 
mildly interesting but most likely terribly hard to track down problem. 
If I execute a miniperl (but linked into parrot and with it's own 
parrot interpreter) it works, but if the caller closes(STDERR) before 
invoking miniperl no output is ever seen on STDOUT.

This is terribly annoying since ExtUtils::MakeMaker does silly things 
like this, could there be some code in parrot that becomes really 
unhappy if STDERR is not open?

Arthur