On 11/16/06, David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well and good, but this is not an abnormal message, and there's no reason for it to go to stderr. stderr is for errors, else it's just unbuffered stdout, which isn't terribly helpful.
Actually lots of programs use stderr for more than just "abnormal" output. It is common practice in programs that generate a lot of output to send the "verbose" messages to stdout and the status messages to stderr. But also, you might be interested in this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511285.html I actually like this idea so much, I may try my hand at hacking portage this weekend to make a proof-of-concept! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
