Re: Adds redirect-lilypond-output option to lilypond-book(issue4664060)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Adds redirect-lilypond-output option to 
lilypond-book(issue4664060)


> address@hidden writes:
>
> > in light of the growing consensus for "combined" logfiles for the build
> > system -- and given that lilypond only produces stuff on stderr and
> > apparently this isn't going to change -- I wonder if it might be better
> > to redirect both stdout and sterr to a single .log file.
>
> Redirecting two file pointers to the same file has a tendency to wreak
> havoc with buffering.
>
> So it is not something I am overly comfortable with.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

My understanding (which is certainly not perfect) is that one of the stream 
is buffered (stdout from memory, without checking) and the other isn't, so 
that the worst that happens is that the lines are not quite in the order 
that might be expected.

--
Phil Holmes