Re: [Monotone-devel] My report on monotone so far

[Faré]

On 28/09/05, Justin Patrin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 9/28/05, Faré <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can you explain to me why the output of monotone has this weird
>> newline without a carriage return?
>
> Weird? Just a newline is the way that Unix signals the end of a line.
> only Windows uses both. Macs use only a carriage return. The de-facto
> standard for web-based communication (and command-line tools) is the
> Unix format, which is only a newline.

The display problem I was experiencing was actually the server and the
client both writing to the terminal at the same time. In fact, I wrote
coproc monotone ... serve ... >&0 thinking that it would redirect both
stdin and stderr like >& usually does, whereas it's a different
file-descriptor-redirecting syntax that only redirects stdout. I would
have had to do a </dev/null >&0 2>&0. But actually, I only need a 2>
/dev/null since it's a coproc and not a &. So monotone is doing the
right thing, and the bug was wholly mine. Oops.

Sorry for the needless alarm. Code fixed on my page.

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