[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] copy: Write progress to stderr, not /dev/tty
Laszlo Ersek
lersek at redhat.com
Mon Sep 5 09:01:52 UTC 2022
On 09/02/22 21:53, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 06:58:53PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 10:25:38AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> dd writes progress messages to stderr, with no complaints. Having
>>> nbdcopy open /dev/tty instead of reusing stderr to write messages
>>> litters the output of a terminal during an interactive 'make check',
>>> which is rather distracting, even though that test also ran a second
>>> copy using a different fd for inspecting the output.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 1df1b05a ("New nbdcopy tool", v1.3.8)
>>
>> ACK
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this,
>
> Now in as d4d4e70d
>
How does this affect the situation described in
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2115621>?
I feel like we should add a comment there, noting that commit d4d4e70d
changes the behavior described previously. I'm unsure about the
specifics though.
Laszlo
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