About stderr for usage messages
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Mon Nov 14 12:56:34 CST 2005
Vitaly Lipatov wrote:
>We are use stderr for print usage or info message in wine programs such as
>eject
>winedump
>winebuild
>wine main (dlls/kernel/process.c)
>
>It is broken behavior: info messages usually expected from stdout stream.
>Will I do patch agaist it?
>
>
Info messages are better using stderr, as you typically don't want to
output it to a file. If you get it by accident then you will want to see
it as it typically means you made a typo somewhere in the command you
are trying to run.
--
Rob Shearman
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