RUN-PROGRAM and error output
Jason Miller
jason at milr.com
Fri Sep 9 17:44:40 UTC 2016
Hi,
A lot of times the most useful information when an external program
returns an error is the stderr output. However, I can't figure out any
way to get this without setting :ignore-error-status to T.
In particular I feel things would be strictly better if every invocation
of the form:
(run-program ... :error-output t)
Acted more like:
(let ((result (multiple-value-list (run-program
:error-output t
:ignore-error-status t))))
(when (not (zerop (caddr result))) (cerror ...))
(values-list result))
The former prints no output to *error-output* in the event of non-zero
return, but the latter prints all the output.
There may be a better way of doing this (including the error file or
output in the condition object perhaps?), so I'm open to alternatives.
Any thoughts?
-Jason
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