On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 00:00 +0100, Andy Polyakov via RT wrote:
> >>> I'd argue that it's intentional. The original purpose for -out option
> >>> appears to be to emit *certificate* itself, not information about it.
> >>> Yes, this kind of means that I reckon that -text option should result in
> >>> output to STDout, not to one appointed by -out. There also is
> >>> inconsistent usage of STDout when treating -days parameter: error
> >>> message should be printed on stderr, not STDout. If nobody screams for
> >>> a week, http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20156 will go down to
> >>> 1.0.x.
> >>
> >> I'm afraid that the change of the target of the -text option output will
> >> break expectations of some scripts people in the wild use. Although it
> >> is slightly more logical with the change than before I'd prefer keeping
> >> it as is at least for 1.0.x. Of course the -days error output change is
> >> fine.
> > I second this.
>
> How about -text -noout -out foo.txt writing info to foo.txt, and -text
> -out foo.txt to stdout?
That would be still a change in the behavior that shouldn't in my opinon
be committed to the stable branches, definitely not to the 1.0.0 branch.
--
Tomas Mraz
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