Syncing stdout with stderr

[gvanem]

Ok, I'll create the 1st issue 🎉
Running a command like in a 4NT.EXE shell:

examine --tool=depends --list examine.exe |& most

Or using the horrid CMD.EXE synatax:

examine --tool=depends --list examine.exe 2>&1 | most

causes the output from stderr to be put last. I'd rather have that intermingled with the normal stdout output to better see where the problem is.

There also seems to be another fflush() (or newline?) problem. The above command could output:

    IPHLPAPI.DLL (dl, f)
    api-ms-win-security-lsalookup-l1-1-1.dll (dl, f)         api-ms-win-service-management-l1-1-0.dll (d, f)

I.e. both on the same line. This is with MSVC-2015 in debug-mode.

[vtorri]

2 possible solutions :

1. i printf the files to stderr
2. i printf the error messages to stdout

but having both in sync seems difficult : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4497817/save-stdout-stderr-and-stdoutstderr-synchronously

what do you think ?

[gvanem]

I'd prefer 2).

But that link discusses stdout/stderr in different programs. No?