-On [20080129 00:13], Greg Ewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >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.
It did, it's from the C. Rationale for Shell and Utilities (XCU). >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! It's only talking about what will be described in the various sections of the utilities' documentation, yes. But it was the closest I could find to *anything* explicitly mentioning stdin, stdout, or stderr and their function. I could find nothing with regard to prompting or other such descriptions. So, don't count on POSIX to mandate anything on this (as far as I can tell). -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ We have met the enemy and they are ours... _______________________________________________ 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
