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On 11/16/06, David Talkington <dtalk@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Well and good, but this is not an abnormal message, and there's no |
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> reason for it to go to stderr. stderr is for errors, else it's just |
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> unbuffered stdout, which isn't terribly helpful. |
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Actually lots of programs use stderr for more than just "abnormal" |
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output. It is common practice in programs that generate a lot of |
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output to send the "verbose" messages to stdout and the status |
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messages to stderr. |
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But also, you might be interested in this: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511285.html |
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I actually like this idea so much, I may try my hand at hacking |
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portage this weekend to make a proof-of-concept! |
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-Richard |
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