On 07/10/2016 21:33, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
>> 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
> The output isn't designed to be parsed any more than the output of
> /etc/rc.d/samba restart is.
IIRC the output of rc.d scripts is in fact supposed to be parsed by
the postprocessing routines in rc.subr.
> Would you say that both sending these informative messages to stdout is
> a bug?
Due to
