[PATCH v2 3/4] new: Print final fatal error message to stderr

Austin Clements amdragon at MIT.EDU
Sat Apr 21 21:27:47 PDT 2012


This was going to stdout.  I removed the newline at the beginning of
printing the fatal error message because it wouldn't make sense if you
were only looking at the stderr stream (e.g., you had redirected
stdout to /dev/null).
---
 notmuch-new.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
index 92e0489..2103b18 100644
--- a/notmuch-new.c
+++ b/notmuch-new.c
@@ -1035,8 +1035,8 @@ notmuch_new_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
     printf ("\n");
 
     if (ret)
-	printf ("\nNote: A fatal error was encountered: %s\n",
-		notmuch_status_to_string (ret));
+	fprintf (stderr, "Note: A fatal error was encountered: %s\n",
+		 notmuch_status_to_string (ret));
 
     notmuch_database_close (notmuch);
 
-- 
1.7.9.1



More information about the notmuch mailing list