Little kbdmap.c diff

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 8 10:49:47 PST 2004


On Monday 08 November 2004 04:01 am, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I would propose this little patch for usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.c :
>
> --- kbdmap.c.old        Sun Nov  7 21:22:08 2004
> +++ kbdmap.c    Sun Nov  7 21:33:53 2004
> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
>         if (!x11)
>                 system(kbd_cmd);
>
> -       printf("keymap=%s\n", km->keym);
> +       fprintf(stderr, "keymap=%s\n", km->keym);
>         free(kbd_cmd);
>  }
>
>
> With this patch, kbdmap will print user choice on stderr instead of
> stdout. This will make saving user preference really easier for FreeSBIE
> [1] and I think it's such a small thing that nobody would have any
> objection..
>
> [1] FreeSBIE (www.freesbie.org) is a project that aims to develope a
> FreeBSD based LiveCD.
>
> Best Regards
>
> P.S. CC'ed to wollman@ because he's the last one to have commited
> modification to kbdmap.c

Curious as to why printing to stderr helps?

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