bug#20269: Disk size is written on STDERR if the disk label is unrecognised

"Brian C. Lane" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:53:52AM +0200, Johan Oudinet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $ sudo parted --script --machine /dev/sdd unit s print
> Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label
> BYT;
> /dev/sdd:7744512s:scsi:512:512:unknown:Generic STORAGE DEVICE:;
> 
> The two last lines are printed in the standard error output instead of
> the normal input. Because of that, I must redirect the standard error to
> the standard output in order to read the disk size.
> IMO, only the error message about the unrecognised disk label should be
> printed on the standard error.

Are you sure? The code handling that is pretty straightforward:

https://github.com/bcl/parted/blob/master/parted/parted.c#L986

puts and printf, no stderr involved.


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