* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:04:01PM CET: > > But it makes them confusing. I really dislike this patch. Isuggest > instead including macros for > > exec AS_MESSAGE_FD([])>/dev/null > > and > > test "$silent" != yes && exec AS_MESSAGE_FD([])>&1
For what it's worth, I tend to agree to this, even if fd operations are typically a bit expensive. Needs checking though whether AS_MESSAGE_FD and fd 1 are the same thing for all users of m4sh (I'm guessing that this merits generalization to m4sh ;-) Cheers, Ralf
