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and subject line Re: Bug#747085: mbuffer: can't shut mbuffer up
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regarding mbuffer: can't shut mbuffer up
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: mbuffer
Version: 20110119-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I'd like mbuffer to be quiet. It insists, however, on printing out
statistics if I also suppress error messages. Consider:
Plain:
us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer
summary: 0.0 kByte in 0.0 sec - average of 0.0 kB/s
-q suppresses statistics:
us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -q
But used in combination with -l /dev/null, the statistics are again
shown:
us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -q -l /dev/null
summary: 0.0 kByte in 0.0 sec - average of 0.0 kB/s
Just using -l /dev/null doesn't help either:
us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -l /dev/null
summary: 0.0 kByte in 0.0 sec - average of 0.0 kB/s
Nor does redirecting stderr:
us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -l /dev/null 2>/dev/null
summary: 0.0 kByte in 0.0 sec - average of 0.0 kB/s
(The reason I want -q and -l is that I want to suppress both the
statistics and the possible broken pipe error message, which isn't
really an error message. Perhaps the broken pipe error message could be
suppressed some other way.)
Thanks,
Neal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mbuffer depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1
ii libmhash2 0.9.9.9-1.1
mbuffer recommends no packages.
mbuffer suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Neal,
My previous message went to the ordinary bug address, so it did not actually
close this report. I am sending this correction to the closing address.
As documented in my previous message at https://bugs.debian.org/747085,
an unchanged rebuild of 20260511+ds1-1 on unstable/amd64 produces no summary
with -q -l /dev/null, both without a controlling terminal and with a
controlling pseudoterminal, including redirected stdout/stderr. The tests
used an empty configuration, newline input and -m 1M -s 4096.
The corresponding Quiet check was added in the upstream 20170921 import
and is present in the Debian 20170921-1 tag and the current source:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mbuffer/-/commit/88832e12f07e8714022d9fb54e70958d43b5b3d2
I am closing the report as already fixed. The Version above is the version
verified by the runtime tests, not a claim that the fix first appeared in
2026 or that the upcoming adoption upload introduces it.
If this symptom still occurs with a current version, please send the command,
configuration and terminal setup so that we can reopen and investigate it.
Thank you for reporting it.
Best regards,
Federico Molara
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