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authorMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2020-01-10 15:46:29 +0100
committerMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2020-01-12 17:14:52 +0100
commit2319680b334819767b7aeaf4e0f3de308e3c6e9c (patch)
treeb3c3e1760f4da640311399df84b9bb0a47848b9b
parent287a18452ad036fe687c88f26e9f59769dc283f5 (diff)
downloadelfutils-2319680b334819767b7aeaf4e0f3de308e3c6e9c.tar.gz
doc: Fix DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS description to just mention output on stderr.
An earlier variant of the default progress function could write to any file. Which is still in the documentation. But the actual implementation just uses stderr. Fix the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.34
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 51088dfa..651ea33d 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-01-10 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
+
+ * debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 (DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS): Mention progress
+ output goes to stderr.
+
2020-01-11 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com
* debuginfod.8: Document --fdcache-fds and --fdcache-mbs opts.
diff --git a/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3 b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
index f6ea7a45..7e5060f2 100644
--- a/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
+++ b/doc/debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ or negative means "no timeout".)
This environment variable governs the default progress function. If
set, and if a progressfn is not explicitly set, then the library will
configure a default progressfn. This function will append a simple
-progress message periodically to the given file. Consider using
-"/dev/stderr" on platforms that support it. The default is nothing.
+progress message periodically to stderr. The default is no progress
+function output.
.TP 21
.B DEBUGINFOD_CACHE_PATH