[darcs-users] darcs patch: shell_harness script in haskell

[Trent W. Buck]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> It'd be better to keep output and errput interleaved as closely as
> possible.  It's unfortunate that runInteractiveCommand doesn't support
> this, but you could look at franchise for an attempt to get some semblance
> of interleaving through use of threads.  Without this, it's very hard to
> figure out which error messages go with which output.

That sounds[0] like almost the opposite of the unix convention of "give
me stderr ASAP (i.e. unbuffered), and stdout whenever (i.e. buffered)."

[0] I didn't look at the code, of course :P I'm lazy and tired and it's
    my bedtime.