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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog14
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--TODO8
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi2
-rw-r--r--src/mkdir.c17
-rw-r--r--src/split.c8
-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/split-a4
-rwxr-xr-xtests/mkdir/p-v4
8 files changed, 42 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c6c44c2a0..597db630d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger <schubiger@gmail.com>
+
+ 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 <meyering@redhat.com>
* Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0d2d97d4f..3d714fc6c 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 a442620ec..3cec0541e 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 40aee6f71..aca5fbd6a 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 070407718..378106501 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 5807a1ccf..f84d40e41 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 794115f5c..a8eed3876 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 2c84b41d6..569e9b072 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'