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

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

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

2011-06-25 Thread Keith OHara
Graham Percival 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 the

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

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.