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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Perhaps we shouldn't rely on stderr, and instead have a backchannel as part of
> the protocol itself.

Absolutely. I'm just irritated at myself for not going that way in the 
first place, but when I originally wrote it, I had my eyes on other 
issues, and the nice status updates got added later..

		Linus