[release/1.4.14] cmd/utils: don't check for stderr redirect on windows

The redirect check did not work on Go 1.6 and below because Stat
returned an error for stdout and stderr. In Go 1.7 Stat works on stdout
but doesn't return anything meaningful, causing cmd/geth test failures
because the message is printed to stderr only. Fix it by printing to
stdout only.

(cherry picked from commit b04219fdbbef06527f77e93129d6a196b6841f44)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/utils/cmd.go b/cmd/utils/cmd.go
index 3b521a0e1..584afc804 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/cmd.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/cmd.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"regexp"
+	"runtime"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core"
@@ -52,10 +53,16 @@ func openLogFile(Datadir string, filename string) *os.File {
 // is redirected to a different file.
 func Fatalf(format string, args ...interface{}) {
 	w := io.MultiWriter(os.Stdout, os.Stderr)
-	outf, _ := os.Stdout.Stat()
-	errf, _ := os.Stderr.Stat()
-	if outf != nil && errf != nil && os.SameFile(outf, errf) {
-		w = os.Stderr
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+		// The SameFile check below doesn't work on Windows.
+		// stdout is unlikely to get redirected though, so just print there.
+		w = os.Stdout
+	} else {
+		outf, _ := os.Stdout.Stat()
+		errf, _ := os.Stderr.Stat()
+		if outf != nil && errf != nil && os.SameFile(outf, errf) {
+			w = os.Stderr
+		}
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Fatal: "+format+"\n", args...)
 	logger.Flush()