From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 7842@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7842: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug 7842)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:08:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwuwgttn.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8v6gzbaq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On Fri, Feb 22 2013, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> It is impossible to separate the standard output and standard error
>> streams of the subprocess, because Emacs normally spawns the subprocess
>> inside a pseudo-TTY, and a pseudo-TTY has only one output channel.
>
> Eli, you're confusing things. We're talking about call-process here,
> which uses no tty and already separates stdout from stderr.
>
> There's nothing unreasonable in requesting the ability to put
> call-process's stderr output inside a buffer. We could easily do that
> with a simple Elisp wrapper (which uses a make-temp-file internally).
> I don't know how hard it would be to do it right, OTOH, but I think it
> would be good to do it.
Thanks so much for the clarification and response, Stefan. I would like
to have a real discussion of the technical issues.
If we can also at the very least remove the "wontfix" tag, so that we
have a clear record of the request, I would be very grateful.
jamie.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1U3Xsb-00055Y-Le@fencepost.gnu.org>
2011-01-14 2:56 ` bug#7842: 23.2; call-process should be able to send stderr to buffer object Jameson Rollins
2011-01-14 3:56 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] ` <handler.7842.C.136026813810926.notifdonectrl.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2013-02-07 22:38 ` bug#7842: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug 7842) Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-07 22:41 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-07 22:47 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-08 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-13 18:51 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-13 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-22 1:50 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-22 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-22 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-22 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-22 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-22 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-22 18:44 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-22 17:08 ` Jameson Graef Rollins [this message]
2013-02-22 17:04 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-22 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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