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Diffstat (limited to 'src/interface-curses/interface.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/interface-curses/interface.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/interface-curses/interface.c b/src/interface-curses/interface.c index 381c188..b135c5c 100644 --- a/src/interface-curses/interface.c +++ b/src/interface-curses/interface.c @@ -597,6 +597,14 @@ teco_interface_init_screen(void) * redirect it. Otherwise, they are already redirected * (e.g. to a file) and writing to them does not * interrupt terminal interaction. + * + * This cannot of course preserve all messages written to stdout/stderr. + * Only those messages written before flushing will be preserved and + * be visible after program termination since they are still in a user- + * space stdio-buffer. + * All messages could only be preserved if we redirected to a temporary + * file and replayed it afterwards. It wouldn't preserve the order of + * stdout vs. stderr messages. */ if (isatty(1)) { teco_interface.stdout_orig = dup(1); |