Always write record counts to stderr.

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index efd593ad6..45005b589 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
             -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
             -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
             -- Size reduction in ping
+            -- Always write dd counts to stderr
         * Aaron Lehmann 
             -- slimmed down md5sum 
             -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math 
diff --git a/coreutils/dd.c b/coreutils/dd.c
index 297d0ab51..d46db82a0 100644
--- a/coreutils/dd.c
+++ b/coreutils/dd.c
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
         size_t bs = 512, count = -1;
         ssize_t n;
         off_t seek = 0, skip = 0;
-        FILE *statusfp;
         char *infile = NULL, *outfile = NULL, *buf;
 
         for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
@@ -110,12 +109,9 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
                         if (ftruncate(ofd, seek * bs) < 0)
                                 perror_msg_and_die("%s", outfile);
                 }
-
-                statusfp = stdout;
         } else {
                 ofd = STDOUT_FILENO;
                 outfile = "standard output";
-                statusfp = stderr;
         }
 
         if (skip) {
@@ -151,8 +147,8 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
                         out_part++;
         }
 
-        fprintf(statusfp, "%ld+%ld records in\n", (long)in_full, (long)in_part);
-        fprintf(statusfp, "%ld+%ld records out\n", (long)out_full, (long)out_part);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%ld+%ld records in\n", (long)in_full, (long)in_part);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%ld+%ld records out\n", (long)out_full, (long)out_part);
 
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/dd.c b/dd.c
index 297d0ab51..d46db82a0 100644
--- a/dd.c
+++ b/dd.c
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
         size_t bs = 512, count = -1;
         ssize_t n;
         off_t seek = 0, skip = 0;
-        FILE *statusfp;
         char *infile = NULL, *outfile = NULL, *buf;
 
         for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
@@ -110,12 +109,9 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
                         if (ftruncate(ofd, seek * bs) < 0)
                                 perror_msg_and_die("%s", outfile);
                 }
-
-                statusfp = stdout;
         } else {
                 ofd = STDOUT_FILENO;
                 outfile = "standard output";
-                statusfp = stderr;
         }
 
         if (skip) {
@@ -151,8 +147,8 @@ int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
                         out_part++;
         }
 
-        fprintf(statusfp, "%ld+%ld records in\n", (long)in_full, (long)in_part);
-        fprintf(statusfp, "%ld+%ld records out\n", (long)out_full, (long)out_part);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%ld+%ld records in\n", (long)in_full, (long)in_part);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%ld+%ld records out\n", (long)out_full, (long)out_part);
 
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }