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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> wrote: > The purpose of STDERR is not to output just error messages, but all kind > of diagnostic messages --- in contrast to STDOUT, which usually contains > data, possibly processed in a pipe. > > So if it changes to a note, it should still go to STDERR. > > (That's why STDOUT is usually buffered while STDERR is not --- you want > to see the diagnostics as fast as possible, while the potentially large > data should be processed as fast as possible) > By that measure most of Configure's output should go do stderr. I think this logic is useful in pipeline programs, but not so much in this kind of use-case. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next