From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com,
eladr@mellanox.com, yotamg@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com,
ogerlitz@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 1/2] devlink: write usage help messages to stderr
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:46:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160723094659.06921b95@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469205270-6180-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:34:29 +0200
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>
> In order to not confuse reader, write help messages into stderr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
This does make devlink consistent with other parts of iproute2.
But the most common coding standards, back to Unix, and GNU are
that help messages should go to stdout so that:
$ ip -h | more
would work as expected.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8813/should-the-usage-message-go-to-stderr-or-stdout/8815
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-23 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-22 16:34 [patch iproute2 1/2] devlink: write usage help messages to stderr Jiri Pirko
2016-07-22 16:34 ` [patch iproute2 2/2] devlink: add option to generate JSON output Jiri Pirko
2016-07-23 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-08-08 7:19 ` [patch iproute2 1/2] devlink: write usage help messages to stderr Jiri Pirko
2016-08-08 15:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-08-08 16:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-08-09 10:34 ` David Laight
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