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 for? > > Well, some programs write informative output to stdout. > A good example would be the address a DHCP client has acquired. > While we may want each part of the DHCP setup to goto stdout, do we want > all of it to? We do want it logged for sure.
Sorry, I meant to say while we may want each part of the DHCP setup to goto stderr (such as `sending REQUEST (xid 0xdeadbeef), next in 3.4 seconds` we may want an informative message such as `leased 1.2.3.4 for 3600 seconds` to be on stdout. But I can be swayed on this also if the concensous is that this is a bug and all output like this should be on stderr .... which does lead me to ask what is stdout actually for then. Roy
