> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:57:40 +0100 > From: Alexander Bluhm <alexander.bl...@gmx.net> > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:08:04 +0100 > > > From: Alexander Bluhm <alexander.bl...@gmx.net> > > > > > > I would like to get rid of some 2>/dev/null. > > > Do we want the status=... feature in OpenBSD? > > > > As a general rule we don't want these non-portable extensions unless > > they're widely implemented. > > I know and feel the same way. But I consider 2>/dev/null in shell > scripts more evil. Instead of inventing something new, I used GNU.
Perhaps we should ask ourselves the question why this gets printed on stderr instead of stdout?
