Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: use a more consistent error reporting scheme.

[Jim Meyering]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> Le 6 juil. 2012 à 15:21, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>
>> Why not shave off the extra forks here?
>>
>>    printf "$me: $warnf_format_" "$@" >&2
>>
>> This shouldn't cause problems, unless '$me' contains '%' or '\' characters.
>
> Or end of line.  Elsewhere, where I use similar routines,
> it is useful to be able to output an error/log message from
> a tool for instance, which may be multiline.
>
> In that case I prefer to keep the original formatting, but
> prepend the name of the tool on each line.

You're welcome to leave the pipe-to-sed.
Worrying about an extra process when processing a diagnostic
is probably a pre-optimization anyhow.  Besides, then
we don't have to worry about whether $me is printf-safe.

Thanks.