I feel compelled to pitch in:

Krzesimir Nowak <[email protected]> wrote on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:27:50
+0200:

> I wonder if there is some crazy platform where stdout is buffered so
> long, that unbuffered stderr shows up first even if something earlier
> was printed into stdout.

stdout is generally buffered, whereas stderr is not.  The "crazy"
situation you describe happens all the time.

> I guess that such tests are hardly reliable as an order of messages is
> guaranteed for one stream, but not between two streams.

Precisely.  You should not rely on synchronicity between different
output streams.

Justus
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