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author | Chuck <chuck@intelligence.org> | 2019-09-16 09:35:38 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Heckemann <git@sphalerite.org> | 2019-11-04 15:11:45 +0100 |
commit | 2ddd2d07601d11f31f9bffa61060d680a1708b4c (patch) | |
tree | 50b08c4b1bf7ccfd7f34d13c543540837137a7d0 /nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option | |
parent | 94a068fe36f8b369071d8185f584d31923f7b00e (diff) | |
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Explain why header goes on stderr
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option/nixos-option.cc b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option/nixos-option.cc index 5fd8f69d800..174b7a0cbb6 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option/nixos-option.cc +++ b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option/nixos-option.cc @@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ void printOption(Context & ctx, Out & out, const std::string & path, Value & opt void printListing(Out & out, Value & v) { - // Print this header on stderr rather than stdout because the old shell script - // implementation did. I don't know why. + // Print this header on stderr rather than stdout, presumably to make it + // slightly easier to consume this output in other tools. std::cerr << "This attribute set contains:\n"; for (const auto & a : v.attrs->lexicographicOrder()) { std::string name = a->name; |