Re: stdout vs. stderr (was: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc)

2011-06-26 Thread Benkő Pál
in C++ there's std::cout, std::cerr and std::clog, and I use all three in my private projects. p ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

stdout vs. stderr (was: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc)

2011-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:44:59PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Carl Sorensen writes: it should redirect non-error output to the file, and errors should appear in the terminal. Stdout is used for valuable program output, stderr for any kind of message, including progress. The name

Re: stdout vs. stderr (was: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc)

2011-06-25 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:27:03PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: 1. what's the official unix definition of STDERR vs. STDOUT? Quoting the standard: 3.358 Standard Error An output stream usually intended to be used for diagnostic messages. [...] 3.360 Standard

Re: stdout vs. stderr (was: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc)

2011-06-25 Thread Keith OHara
Graham Percival graham at percival-music.ca writes: Stdout is used for valuable program output, stderr for any kind of message, including progress. The name stdERR is possibly somewhat unfortunate and comes from the days that unix commands would only print something (to stdERR) if

Re: stdout vs. stderr (was: Patch: small reduction in output from make doc)

2011-06-25 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2011, 20:09:50 schrieb Matthias Kilian: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:27:03PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: 1. what's the official unix definition of STDERR vs. STDOUT? Quoting the standard: 3.358 Standard Error An output stream usually intended to be used