Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: How to create ed2k links?

[Ken Bradshaw]

address@hidden wrote:
> Pierre Etchemaite wrote:
> > have a different behavior when called using another name (thru symlinks)
> Please dont't do this. This is absolutely non-standard and will produce 

No, it is an old and very standard UNIX practice.

>  > or sent to STDERR while only final result(s) are sent to STDOUT...
>
> Is this a standard procedure? (To send "normal" program outputs to 
> STDERR?) I was under the impression that only errors go to STDERR, but 
> I'm not sure if other programs do this, that's why I'm asking.

Although some programs do it, it is not the standard way.
The normal way is to detect if the stdout is a terminal, and output 
verbose info only in this case, thus "program|cat" will not print the
verbose form.
But outputting "monitoring" info to STDERR is commonly done.