Re: Why are the priorities of stdout and stderr the same

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Di, 29.08.23 11:56, Cecil Westerhof (cldwesterhof@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I agree with that usecase, and we have discussed this many times
> > before, but we couldn#t come up with a nice way to make everything
> > work: proper ordering and distintion of stdout/stderr.
>
> I agree that the default behaviour is the right one. But why not give
> people the possibility to override this behaviour? When they override it
> themselves, they cannot complain that they lose ordering.

We are generally conservative when providing mechanisms that are too
glaringly broken. Even if they are opt-in.

Lennart

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