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**danix** · 04-13-12, 10:57 AM

Like Plagman says, you can easily change the default width to anything you want: see DEFAULT_MAX_WIDTH in src/msg.c. I think that defaulting to < 80 characters and defaulting to INT_MAX are both reasonable, for different reasons. Redirecting std{err,out} is a pretty common use case and when doing so, I imagine that we can often expect that the file descriptors won't be associated with any terminal, which might tip the scales slightly in the favor of INT_MAX.

04-13-12, 10:57 AM	#12
danix NVIDIA Corporation Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 237	Re: Interesting observation with nvidia-settings and stderr redirection Like Plagman says, you can easily change the default width to anything you want: see DEFAULT_MAX_WIDTH in src/msg.c. I think that defaulting to < 80 characters and defaulting to INT_MAX are both reasonable, for different reasons. Redirecting std{err,out} is a pretty common use case and when doing so, I imagine that we can often expect that the file descriptors won't be associated with any terminal, which might tip the scales slightly in the favor of INT_MAX.