From f1a27ed433b1ed7a0d12990ae36ab4f8bb7dbc5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: koekeishiya <aasvi93@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 22:12:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] #131 write errors to stderr

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 1 +
 src/yabai.c  | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 61143858..76745ab9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Changed
 - Float native macOS fullscreen spaces [#130](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/130)
+- Write error messsages returned to the client through *stderr* [#131](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/131)
 
 ## [1.1.1] - 2019-07-14
 ### Changed
diff --git a/src/yabai.c b/src/yabai.c
index aee700c6..ba8bfbf2 100644
--- a/src/yabai.c
+++ b/src/yabai.c
@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ static int client_send_message(int argc, char **argv)
             rsp[byte_count] = '\0';
 
             if (rsp[0] == FAILURE_MESSAGE[0]) {
-                fprintf(stdout, "%s", rsp + 1);
                 result = EXIT_FAILURE;
+                fprintf(stderr, "%s", rsp + 1);
+                fflush(stderr);
             } else {
                 fprintf(stdout, "%s", rsp);
+                fflush(stdout);
             }
-
-            fflush(stdout);
         }
     }