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by mprovost 1321 days ago
Someone on this site suggested that programs open another filehandle along with stdout and stderr (stdjson) for their json output which struck me as a way to make this work in a backwards-compatible fashion.
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Even just a generic stdmeta would go a long way to defining _what_ is being output. Curl is the worst about this.

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