Hello everybody. On Friday 15 April 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Btw, there will be other side effects, at least on non-Posix > platforms, due to the fact that stuff that was supposed to go to the > screen is redirected to a file instead. Some programs sense that and > behave differently, e.g. with binary non-printable characters or with > special character sequences. By redirecting the output to files, then > displaying it on the screen, the output may look strangely, or have > some more grave effect, like terminating output prematurely. We > should consider these potential problems, and in any case the simple > loop that reads from temporary files and writes to stdout/stderr may > need to become much more complicated, at least on DOS/Windows. (I > believe similar, though less serious, problems could happen on Unix as > well.) > For a real-life example of a (minor) problem of this kind that we have encountered in Automake, see: <http://www.mail-archive.com/automake-patches@gnu.org/msg03641.html>
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