Error message output

David Christensen dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Mon Sep 21 21:56:44 UTC 2020


On 2020-09-21 01:09, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> I have
> long thought that there should be a stdctl then stdin/stdout are data flow
> and stdtctl/stderr are control flow.
> 
>> * Use stderr, log files, and the exit value for out-of-band/ non-data
>> output.

Similar thoughts here.  The three standard handles seem cover the basics 
of interactive and batch usage.  Beyond that, the programmer is free to 
keep it simple or make it more complex.


David




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