Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > I cannot find anything explicitly in favour of or against this in POSIX. The > stuff quoted below is what I could find. > > "3.105 Command Language Interpreter > > STDERR > > This section does not describe error messages that refer to incorrect > operation of the utility.
What document did this come from? This sounds more like it's talking about what should be described in various sections of a man page, not what should be written to the various streams by a program. Otherwise, > a message indicating that the > utility had insufficient memory in which to operate would not be described. sounds like an out-of-memory message shouldn't be written to stderr, which I'm fairly sure is not the case! -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com