I wonder why was stderr invented... uriel
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > >> commentary > > This is because those programs use stdout for status indication, much like > hget -v. Think of wget, which is forced to use a terminal in order to make a > progress bar. > > The idea is simple, and I'd like to go into more detail: the modern UNIX > programmers want to make it easier for a more general public to use it, even > at the risk of losing what UNIX was originally intended to. Ergo, we are > more like UNIX than GNU or BSD is. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkkeCiUACgkQuv7AVNQDs+x4NwCeJwB+z6W4fChQEO9VSB7tz1Xu > vX0An1tEeZlmxBKXEFFG0D+MXstTGL0h > =M4Bq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
