On 6/21/11 1:08 AM, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
> On 06/19/2011 10:38 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> I never like the idea of throwing stderr away blindly. If there's a
>> particular message that you know you can safely ignore, I would grep
>> it out. There's a trick for grepping on stderr and keeping it
>> separate from stdout... Let's see if I can find the link...
> 
> In my patch, only stdout is thrown away. I can't see how it makes things 
> any worse though, since there are no stdio descriptors open at all in 
> hotplug scripts, so stderr will be discarded anyway.
> 
> I guess the real problem is that the chat code seems to expect an open 
> stdout descriptor, and hangs when it can't write to it. My patch "fixes" 
> that by redirecting stdout, thereby giving it a file descriptor to write to.
> 
> Linus

Ok, that's fine then.
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