do_plaintext() error message

Kyle Hasselbacher Kyle Hasselbacher <kyle-exp-1056319349.6a57a8@toehold.com>
Thu Apr 24 00:02:01 2003


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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Steve Butler wrote:
>Perhaps I'm all wet, but wouldn't the output from both tar and time be sent
>via the pipe to gpg?  Somehow I think there will be problems since tar is
>being told to send output via STDOUT and time writes by default to STDOUT.
>
>Try it without time.

Hmmm.  Not on my system.

kyle@longshot ~ $ time echo hello
hello

real	0m0.000s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s
kyle@longshot ~ $ time echo hello > /dev/null

real	0m0.000s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s
kyle@longshot ~ $ uname -a
Linux longshot 2.4.20 #1 Thu Nov 28 20:28:40 CST 2002 i686 unknown
kyle@longshot ~ $ 

I'm not sure how time writes its output, but it's not stdout.  It's a shell
built-in, so maybe it writes straight to the terminal.
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Kyle Hasselbacher
kyle@toehold.com
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