doc: Fix DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS description to just mention output on stderr.

An earlier variant of the default progress function could write to any
file. Which is still in the documentation. But the actual implementation
just uses stderr. Fix the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 51088dfaf9b09f2149e166b33e8421006b649d4b..651ea33d4106a28f6e3d2b512b8ef4d3af6b46c5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-01-10  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
+
+       * debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 (DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS): Mention progress
+       output goes to stderr.
+
 2020-01-11  Frank Ch. Eigler  <fche@redhat.com
 
        * debuginfod.8: Document --fdcache-fds and --fdcache-mbs opts.

diff --git a/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
index f6ea7a4590a966429adeac63d90efed5a3a1427f..7e5060f27a7b07b51fafb61e5f899d3ea1cf2564 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
+++ b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ or negative means "no timeout".)
 This environment variable governs the default progress function.  If
 set, and if a progressfn is not explicitly set, then the library will
 configure a default progressfn.  This function will append a simple
-progress message periodically to the given file.  Consider using
-"/dev/stderr" on platforms that support it.  The default is nothing.
+progress message periodically to stderr.  The default is no progress
+function output.
 
 .TP 21
 .B DEBUGINFOD_CACHE_PATH