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Re: reporting/harness and stderr



Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:

> Hmm, would it be possible to do that inside lintian instead without
> introducing too much complexity? I would prefer not to make harness
> too intelligent, I would bet we would have to implement that intelligence
> again at other places...

Hm, lintian could fork off a subprocess that handles stderr and adds a tag
to it.  But we would have to be careful about out-of-order output and we
may stomp on ourselves and mangle our own output by printing out two
things at the same time.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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