Marcel Apfelbaum <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 09:34 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 08/22/2013 08:13 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> >>> +++ b/qdev-monitor.c >> >>> @@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ static void >> >>> qdev_print_category_devices(DeviceCategory category) >> >>> DeviceClass *dc; >> >>> GSList *list, *curr; >> >>> >> >>> + error_printf("%s devices:\n", qdev_category_get_name(category)); >> >> >> >> Why is that an error? Shouldn't it go to stdout? >> > >> > Output of -device help has always gone to stderr, and that has always >> > annoyed me. Just not enough to fix it. >> >> Back when libvirt scraped -help output, changing it to use stdout would >> be an incompatible change. But now that libvirt uses QMP, I would also >> welcome a change to use stdout (but also fall in the category of "not >> enough of a bother for ME to fix it). > It really bothers me. I need to use the help (being new to qemu ...) > and I am always forgetting "2>&1". > > Anyone can think of a reason for not sending the help to stdout?
Post a patch and find out ;)
