[Bug 11474] New: winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

Summary: winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=10617)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10617)
simple test case

The following line in winelauncher:

( $WINEBIN/$WINE_BIN_NAME "$@"; echo $? >$status_name ) 2>&1 | tee
"$log_name"

mixes up stdout and stderr irreversibly.  As a result, commands like:

echo some_file | cpio.exe -o -H newc > out.cpio

which would work on Windows, on wine get stderr messages merged into the
output.

I've been thinking for a while in a way to duplicate streams in bash without
mixing stdout with stderr, but couldn't find anything.

I think a C wrapper would be needed;  perhaps in wine-bin itself.  What's your
preference?

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-02-05 09:37:11 ---
Just don't use it. It's the extra helper script that was supposed to help to
display errors for users to copy to bugzilla. Now it's not used and all distros
are discouraged from using it.

In other words it's not meant for scripting, use main "wine" binary. If you
distro happened to use this launcher, please report problem to them and make
them stop using it.

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

--- Comment #2 from Robert Millan   2008-02-05 09:38:31 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> In other words it's not meant for scripting, use main "wine" binary. If you
> distro happened to use this launcher, please report problem to them and make
> them stop using it.

I will.  But why not remove it from the source?  Sounds like that would be more
effective.

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

Robert Millan  changed:

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         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #3 from Robert Millan   2008-02-18 07:06:11 ---
The Debian maintainer doesn't believe that winelauncher is deprecated.  Since
upstream wine is still providing it, that makes it hard for me to convince him
otherwise.

Please, if winelauncher is really deprecated could you remove it from the
repository?  Otherwise get in touch with Ove and explain it to him.  I can't
make sense of it myself but I don't really care as long as you agree on
something (so that /usr/bin/wine ends up being a non-broken executable).

Thanks

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

--- Comment #4 from Robert Millan   2008-02-18 08:34:18 ---
Created an attachment (id=10834)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10834)
fix

Btw, attached patch (made by Ove Kaaven) fixes the problem.

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

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Robert Millan  changed:

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Austin English   2008-04-09 04:27:41 ---
Any reason we can't remove winelauncher?

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #6 from Alexandre Julliard   2008-04-09 05:32:33 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Any reason we can't remove winelauncher?

I killed it.

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #7 from Alexandre Julliard   2008-04-18 11:04:01 ---
Closing bugs reported fixed in 0.9.60.

[Bug 11474] winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474

Austin English  changed:

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            Version|CVS/GIT                     |unspecified