On 02/23/2011 01:23 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Hello Gilles, > > thanks for your patch. I am not sure it is a good idea to use stderr > to prompt a message to the user. I would just inhibit the message when > -O- is used.
Personally, I agree with Gilles; in every single instance other than here, we always write information meant for the user to stderr (I believe for the reason he cites: so as not to interfere with the output in the case of -O-). I'd say we should either blindly write to stderr in all cases, or else consider specifically finding the terminal and writing to that (ttyname?) -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
