On 07/10/2016 00:36, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 2016-10-06 18:25, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
>>>LOG_POUT - output only the formattted message to stdout
>>>if pri > LOG_ERR, otherwise stderr
>> Writing diagnostics to stdout sounds very wrong, I wouldn't want
>> any program to do that
> what is stdout actually for then.
I guess the usual distinction is that stdout gets the "proper" output
of a non-sink program (e.g. for ls(1) the actual directory listing,
while diagnostic information (ls: foo: Permission denied) goes
to stderr for the user to look at, and to not have it creep up
