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+Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:44:36 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] cli: add global option --stderr=FILE\r
+Message-ID: <20130527214436.GT5999@mit.edu>\r
+References: <1369557954-13439-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
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+\r
+Quoth Tomi Ollila on May 26 at 11:45 am:\r
+> With this option all writes to stderr are redirected to the spesified\r
+> FILE (or to stdout on case FILE is '-'). This is immediately useful\r
+> in emacs interface as some of its exec intefaces do not provide\r
+> separation of stdout and stderr.\r
+> ---\r
+> notmuch-client.h | 1 +\r
+> notmuch.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r
+> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)\r
+> \r
+> diff --git a/notmuch-client.h b/notmuch-client.h\r
+> index 45749a6..4a3c7ac 100644\r
+> --- a/notmuch-client.h\r
+> +++ b/notmuch-client.h\r
+> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ typedef GMimeCipherContext notmuch_crypto_context_t;\r
+> #include <sys/stat.h>\r
+> #include <sys/time.h>\r
+> #include <unistd.h>\r
+> +#include <fcntl.h>\r
+> #include <dirent.h>\r
+> #include <errno.h>\r
+> #include <signal.h>\r
+> diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c\r
+> index f51a84f..654a568 100644\r
+> --- a/notmuch.c\r
+> +++ b/notmuch.c\r
+> @@ -251,6 +251,32 @@ notmuch_command (notmuch_config_t *config,\r
+> return 0;\r
+> }\r
+> \r
+> +static int\r
+> +redirect_stderr (const char * stderr_file)\r
+> +{\r
+> + if (strcmp (stderr_file, "-") == 0) {\r
+> + if (dup2 (STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {\r
+> + perror ("dup2");\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+> + } else {\r
+> + int fd = open (stderr_file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0644);\r
+\r
+I think this should include O_TRUNC; otherwise it's too error-prone to\r
+use programmatically. The permissions should be 0666 (if the user's\r
+umask says things should be group or world writable, it's not our job\r
+to disagree).\r
+\r
+> + if (fd < 0) {\r
+> + fprintf (stderr, "Error: Cannot redirect stderr to '%s': %s\n",\r
+> + stderr_file, strerror (errno));\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+> + if (fd != STDERR_FILENO) {\r
+> + if (dup2 (fd, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {\r
+> + perror ("dup2");\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+> + close (fd);\r
+> + }\r
+> + }\r
+> + return 0;\r
+> +}\r
+> +\r
+> int\r
+> main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> {\r
+> @@ -259,6 +285,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> const char *command_name = NULL;\r
+> command_t *command;\r
+> char *config_file_name = NULL;\r
+> + char *stderr_file = NULL;\r
+> notmuch_config_t *config;\r
+> notmuch_bool_t print_help=FALSE, print_version=FALSE;\r
+> int opt_index;\r
+> @@ -268,6 +295,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> { NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &print_help, "help", 'h', 0 },\r
+> { NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &print_version, "version", 'v', 0 },\r
+> { NOTMUCH_OPT_STRING, &config_file_name, "config", 'c', 0 },\r
+> + { NOTMUCH_OPT_STRING, &stderr_file, "stderr", '\0', 0 },\r
+> { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }\r
+> };\r
+> \r
+> @@ -287,6 +315,10 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+> return 1;\r
+> }\r
+> \r
+> + if (stderr_file && redirect_stderr (stderr_file) != 0) {\r
+> + /* error already printed */\r
+> + return 1;\r
+> + }\r
+> if (print_help)\r
+> return notmuch_help_command (NULL, argc - 1, &argv[1]);\r
+> \r