Re: tee logs no output if stdout is closed

[Jim Meyering]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

>> What else do you propose to cover these cases, if not a global variable?
>
> If only one behavior is needed across an entire package, a dummy module
> with gl_MODULE_INDICATOR would do.  Better than having fwriteerror do
> one thing and close_stdout do another.

This is a good compromise, and may be sufficient.
The alternatives I didn't really want to mention are
to provide a new function or to change the API.