[Freemint-list] Handling of PRGs/APPs which console output

[Thorsten Otto]

On Friday 06 January 2017 18:23:01 Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Let's be honest, we're talking about one particular program here :)
> That's Netsurf, the debug build that's supposed to be shipped with the
> Firebee

if it is a debug build, then users should know to expect output from it. In 
that case its their fault if they are complaining about it.

>If you eat all output to stdout by default, you will never know
>that Papyrus aborted due to lack of memory, you'll just see that it
>vanished in front of you.

Thats one of the situations why i don't like the concept of eating all output, 
regardless how it is actually implemented. There are some runtime libraries 
that print an error, then abort the program on certain fatal conditions. Since 
the program is going to exit anyway, i think this output is acceptable, 
especially because in most cases those libraries usually wait for a keypress 
for confirmation. I think you don't want to have a program hang around forever 
waiting for a  key and don't know what happened because you did not see the 
error message...