[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The POSIX specification requires that the prompt be issued to stderr:-
Fair enough. Thanks for the info.
What my patch essentially did was:
if (isatty(stderr)) { /* interactive */
human=open("/dev/tty");
fcntl(human,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC);
} else {
human=stderr;
}
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:06:23AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Felipe Kellermann wrote:
> >On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 5:39am +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >
> >
> >> > Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
> >> > to remove those annoying
> >> > total 1120
> >> > without needing to
Felipe Kellermann wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 5:39am +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
> to remove those annoying
> total 1120
> without needing to pipe to a filter.
Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.
The horror,
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 5:39am +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
>> to remove those annoying
>> total 1120
>> without needing to pipe to a filter.
>
>Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.
>
> The horror, wh
I've seen other programs printing only informative messages to
stderr.
Depends on what you call a "informative message", a warning should go
to stderr. Normal output should go to stdout. `total ' is normal
output, hence it should go to stdout.
I know this behavior is standardized b
> Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
> to remove those annoying
> total 1120
> without needing to pipe to a filter.
Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.
The horror, why do people come up with these silly ideas? `total
N' is not a error me
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 6:37am +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
> to remove those annoying
> total 1120
> without needing to pipe to a filter.
Another possibility would be to output the `total' to stderr.
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Felipe Kellermann
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Did I mention ls should have a --no-total option
to remove those annoying
total 1120
without needing to pipe to a filter.
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