GNU bug report logs - #37906
26.2; `call-process' docstring, section DESTINATION

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Florian v. Savigny" <f.savigny <at> mailbox.org>

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 37906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Florian v. Savigny" <f.savigny <at> mailbox.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 37906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37906: 26.2; `call-process' docstring, section DESTINATION
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 04:14:57 +0200

"Florian v. Savigny" <f.savigny <at> mailbox.org> writes:

> I do not want to argue what the "true" usual case is or might be. But
> I do want to argue that if such an assumption is made, it should be
> made explicitly (e.g. by saying, "... by default, stdout and stderr
> are mixed together like on the terminal ...

I've now amended the doc string of call-process in Emacs 28 to
explicitly say that we mean both stdout and stderr when we talk about
"output".

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