Re: [Monotone-devel] question regarding stdio and streams

[Thomas Keller]

Nathaniel J. Smith schrieb:
> If you want to include the information into automate stdio's stdout
> stream, you need to multiplex it in somehow, and I don't have any
> particular opinion on what the best way would be to write such code.
> I'm sort of surprised you even want it :-).

The reason why it could be useful is because it contains status 
information of what is currently going on, i.e. for mtn automate 
push/pull/sync, which would be (if not merged into stdout) just hidden 
for a GUI. Those messages tell the user again to which server he 
connects, if a key (or anonymous access) is used and finally if the 
process itself was a success. Now if this is missing, this is not such a 
bad thing, if the process wouldn't spend sometimes more time on these 
steps (i.e. connecting to a server) while the user doesn't get any 
feedback on the action. The command line GUI tell me what it does, over 
automate I can't see what happens.

Btw... a sidenode, could it be that clog is by default redirected to 
cerr anyways? At least here on OSX if I do 2>/dev/null, the log messages 
disappear, while they are still available if I redirect stdout to 
/dev/null. Before looking at monotone's sources I didn't even know of a 
clog output stream, but thought cout and cerr where the only (used) ones...

Thomas.


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