Re: stderr usage instead of /dev/tty

[Padraig Brady]

Philip Lijnzaad wrote:
> > Nobody commented on my previous patch to bash
> > to tell it to interact with /dev/tty instead of stderr.
> > Is it complete lunacy or what? In 10 words or less
> > why does bash use stderr instead of /dev/tty ?
> I may have missed this, but you (I mean, programs in general) have to have
> very good reasons to use /dev/tty.

Agreed. However my previous patch only used standard error
for interactive stuff, i.e. the readline routines and outputting of the 
prompt.
By doing this any errors from bash (& hence any of its children) can be
redirected to file/output colorizer/...

Basically I think it's much more flexible to split interactive stuff to 
/dev/tty
and non interactive to stderr.

Padraig.