On 2017-10-06, Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reason a daemon usually opens dummy file descriptors for the 0, 1
> and 2 slots is to avoid accidents. Some library might assume the
> existence of those file descriptors. For example, I often see GTK print
> out diagnositic messages.
I run a lot of GTK programs from the command line, and I would say 90%
or more of them spew a steady stream of meaningless (to the user)
diagnostic messages. That's pretty sloppy programming if you ask
me...
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