diff -Naur cvs-1.11.1p1-ORIG/src/run.c cvs-1.11.1p1/src/run.c
--- cvs-1.11.1p1-ORIG/src/run.c	Wed Nov 28 17:24:29 2001
+++ cvs-1.11.1p1/src/run.c	Tue Jan  8 01:46:17 2002
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@
     int pid;
     int to_child_pipe[2];
     int from_child_pipe[2];
+    int error_fd;
 
     if (pipe (to_child_pipe) < 0)
 	error (1, errno, "cannot create pipe");
@@ -418,6 +419,9 @@
     setmode (from_child_pipe[1], O_BINARY);
 #endif
 
+    if ((error_fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY)) < 0)
+	error (1, errno, "cannot open /dev/null");
+
 #ifdef HAVE_VFORK
     pid = vfork ();
 #else
@@ -435,6 +439,10 @@
 	    error (1, errno, "cannot close pipe");
 	if (dup2 (from_child_pipe[1], STDOUT_FILENO) < 0)
 	    error (1, errno, "cannot dup2 pipe");
+	if (dup2 (error_fd, STDERR_FILENO) < 0)
+	    error (1, errno, "cannot dup2 pipe");
+	if (close (error_fd) < 0)
+	    error (1, errno, "cannot close pipe");
 
 	execvp (command[0], command);
 	error (1, errno, "cannot exec %s", command[0]);