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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