bug#7842: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug 7842)

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

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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