From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pprint and exportfs (and others)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:07:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5hUk_e5qu3Q253BWA0gDotff7X0epSmtYiFr3gfo-ULYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85949202d2993506b5739a15d1f1126e@proxima.alt.za>
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The user is intended to see these messages: that's the point of pprint. The
messages refer to a program the user is running. It produces diagnostics
from the kernel to the user, and thus correctly uses standard error.
On 17 Apr 2013 18:54, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > there is no kprint in plan 9. neither can one
> > syslog from the kernel.
>
> I was going to be clearer, then got lazy:
>
> -lr--r----- c 0 lucio lucio 0 Mar 21 20:44 /dev/kprint
>
> that's the console, I've never investigated how the kernel writes to
> it, but it sounds like the right place for diagnostics that should not
> get mixed up with the user's stderr.
>
> ++L
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-17 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 16:52 Charles Forsyth
2013-04-17 17:35 ` lucio
2013-04-17 17:43 ` erik quanstrom
2013-04-17 17:52 ` lucio
2013-04-17 21:07 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2013-04-17 21:55 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-04-18 2:20 ` erik quanstrom
2013-04-20 19:15 ` cinap_lenrek
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