bug#7842: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug 7842)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> and already separates stdout from stderr.
> stderr is put on a file when separated.

Still, it disproves the statement that "It is impossible to separate the
standard output and standard error streams of the subprocess".

>> There's nothing unreasonable in requesting the ability to put
>> call-process's stderr output inside a buffer.  We could easily do that
>> with a simple Elisp wrapper (which uses a make-temp-file internally).
> The OP seems to object to a solution that would use files, or else he
> would have used make-temp-file himself.

He mentions 4 problems with the current situation:

> * The first touches the disk, the second does not.

Providing a wrapper that does make-temp-file doesn't solve this point,
indeed.

> * The first requires me to pick a temporary file name that does not
>   collide with an existing file on disk, the second does not.
> * The first requires me to cleanup a temporary file, the second does
>   not.
> * The first is 45 characters long, the second is 13.

But the wrapper would solve all those 3 remaining points (because the
wrapper would pay this cost, not Jameson).


        Stefan