[systemd-devel] Why are the priorities of stdout and stderr the same

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op di 29 aug 2023 om 11:58 schreef Lennart Poettering <
lennart at poettering.net>:

> On Di, 29.08.23 11:56, Cecil Westerhof (cldwesterhof at gmail.com) 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.
>

OK. Thanks for your patience.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
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