KDE strerr?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/5/31 Howard Coles jr <dhcolesj at comcast.net>:
> You have to remember, however, that what this really means is that it can be
> redirected.  It goes by default to .xsession-errors, however an app may
> redirect, or you may redirect to where ever you want.  stderr (standard
> error) as an output is more a standard interface than a destination.  The app
> just sends the error to "stderr" its up to you, the OS, the app, or in this
> case X, to define where that is.
>
> I say all that so that if you look in ".xsession-errors" and don't see appA's
> errors, that could just mean that appA has redirected to another location,
> and you can change that location.
>
> Dotan, I think you know this, but maybe someone watching this thread is
> wondering what "stderr" really is.  stderr, stdin, stdout, etc, are all like
> passthrough windows in a restaurant.  I put the food in the window as the
> cook, I have no idea what table its going to, and I don't care.  the cook is
> the app, and the window is "stderr".   Another function, the waiter in our
> example, takes the output, in this case the food, to the destination.
>
> I remember when I starded in Linux, this took me a bit to get a hold of for
> some reason.

Thank you Howard. Actually, I did not know those details. I had
suspected that stderr is like a device /dev/something which any app
can write to, but I was not sure. Now I know. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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