On 07/06/2012 03:28 PM, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Le 6 juil. 2012 à 15:21, Stefano Lattarini a écrit : > >> Why not shave off the extra forks here? >> >> printf "$me: $warnf_format_" "$@" >&2 >> >> This shouldn't cause problems, unless '$me' contains '%' or '\' characters. > > Or end of line. > You mean in one "$@" entry, not in "$me", right? If yes, point taken.
Elsewhere, where I use similar routines, > it is useful to be able to output an error/log message from > a tool for instance, which may be multiline. > > In that case I prefer to keep the original formatting, but > prepend the name of the tool on each line. > > That's why I did it this way, but I'll do whatever people here > tell me to. > I didn't think about the use cases you've described, and they wouldn't have seemed important *to me*; but if they are to you, please use your original formulation. I don't think it's really worth worrying about performance in this case anyway. Sure not worth holding this patch back! Regards, Stefano
