Tom Lane wrote:
> I checked around with some kernel/glibc gurus in Red Hat, and the
> consensus seemed to be that we'd be better off to bypass fprintf() and
> just send message strings to stderr using write() --- ie, instead of
> elog.c doing
>
> fprintf(stderr, "%s", buf.data);
>
> do
>
> write(fileno(stderr), buf.data, strlen(buf.data));
>
> Anyone have any comments on possible portability risks? In
> particular, will this work on Windows?
The following program compiles and runs fine:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
const char *s="Hello!\n";
write(fileno(stderr), s, strlen(s));
return 0;
}
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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