use stderr for error messages and for ncurses ui#176
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use stderr for error messages and for ncurses ui#176JCoMcL wants to merge 1 commit intoclbr:masterfrom
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I tried writing a shell script which parses the output of
radeontop -d -and found that I had to filter out the first two linesPrinting metadata like this to stderr for humans to see while and reserving stdout for the actual data makes piping a lot easier. Despite the name, stderr isn't just errors, it's generally for anything intended for humans and not meaningful in shell scripts. That also includes the ncurses UI, which typically uses stderr.
These changes should make no difference in normal cases but be a lot more predictable in specific cases.