From: Steven Schubiger Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:25:24 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. X-Git-Tag: v6.11~168 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a09dadf1004aa07e2c31d95d6c80247fec1fa646;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. * src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. (announce_mkdir): Use it. * src/split.c (usage): Update. * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention of --verbose output being printed to stderr. * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention this change. * TODO: Remove this item. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c6c44c2a0f..597db630d9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger + + mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. + * src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. + (announce_mkdir): Use it. + * src/split.c (usage): Update. + * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. + * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention + of --verbose output being printed to stderr. + * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. + * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. + * NEWS: Mention this change. + * TODO: Remove this item. + 2008-02-04 Jim Meyering * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d2d97d4f0..3d714fc6cf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" detects and ignores the failure in more cases when a directory is empty. +** Consistency + + mkdir and split now write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. + * Noteworthy changes in release 6.10 (2008-01-22) [stable] diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index a442620ecc..3cec0541e1 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -46,14 +46,6 @@ And once that's done, add an exclusion so that `cp --link' no longer incurs the overhead of saving src. dev/ino and dest. filename in the hash table. -See if we can be consistent about where --verbose sends its output: - These all send --verbose output to stdout: - head, tail, rm, cp, mv, ln, chmod, chown, chgrp, install, ln - These send it to stderr: - shred mkdir split - shred must write --verbose output to stderr - readlink is different - Write an autoconf test to work around build failure in HPUX's 64-bit mode. See notes in README -- and remove them once there's a work-around. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 40aee6f715..aca5fbd6ac 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ Use digits in suffixes rather than lower-case letters. @itemx --verbose @opindex --verbose -Write a diagnostic to standard error just before each output file is opened. +Write a diagnostic just before each output file is opened. @end table diff --git a/src/mkdir.c b/src/mkdir.c index 0704077183..3781065015 100644 --- a/src/mkdir.c +++ b/src/mkdir.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* mkdir -- make directories - Copyright (C) 90, 1995-2002, 2004-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 90, 1995-2002, 2004-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -79,6 +79,19 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ exit (status); } +/* Verbose formatted output of variable count of arguments. */ +static void +verbose_output (FILE *fp, char const *fmt, ...) +{ + va_list ap; + fputs (program_name, fp); + fputs (": ", fp); + va_start (ap, fmt); + vfprintf (fp, fmt, ap); + va_end (ap); + fputc ('\n', fp); +} + /* Options passed to subsidiary functions. */ struct mkdir_options { @@ -105,7 +118,7 @@ announce_mkdir (char const *dir, void *options) { struct mkdir_options const *o = options; if (o->created_directory_format) - error (0, 0, o->created_directory_format, quote (dir)); + verbose_output (stdout, o->created_directory_format, quote (dir)); } /* Make ancestor directory DIR, whose last component is COMPONENT, diff --git a/src/split.c b/src/split.c index 5807a1ccf6..f84d40e41c 100644 --- a/src/split.c +++ b/src/split.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* split.c -- split a file into pieces. - Copyright (C) 1988, 1991, 1995-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1988, 1991, 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ -l, --lines=NUMBER put NUMBER lines per output file\n\ "), DEFAULT_SUFFIX_LENGTH); fputs (_("\ - --verbose print a diagnostic to standard error just\n\ - before each output file is opened\n\ + --verbose print a diagnostic just before each\n\ + output file is opened\n\ "), stdout); fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ cwrite (bool new_file_flag, const char *bp, size_t bytes) next_file_name (); if (verbose) - fprintf (stderr, _("creating file %s\n"), quote (outfile)); + fprintf (stdout, _("creating file %s\n"), quote (outfile)); output_desc = open (outfile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, (S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP diff --git a/tests/misc/split-a b/tests/misc/split-a index 794115f5c4..a8eed38760 100755 --- a/tests/misc/split-a +++ b/tests/misc/split-a @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh # Show that split -a works. -# Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ test -f xaz && fail=1 rm -f x* # With a longer suffix, it must succeed. -split --verbose -b 1 -a 2 in 2> err || fail=1 +split --verbose -b 1 -a 2 in > err || fail=1 test -f xaa || fail=1 test -f xaz || fail=1 test -f xba || fail=1 diff --git a/tests/mkdir/p-v b/tests/mkdir/p-v index 2c84b41d67..569e9b072b 100755 --- a/tests/mkdir/p-v +++ b/tests/mkdir/p-v @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh # Test mkdir -pv. -# Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ fi . $srcdir/../lang-default . $srcdir/../test-lib.sh -mkdir -pv foo/a/b/c/d 2>out || exit +mkdir -pv foo/a/b/c/d >out || exit diff - out <<\EOF mkdir: created directory `foo'