[Xmonad] darcs patch: make spawn redirect std* to /dev/null
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Sun Sep 23 15:16:19 EDT 2007
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:19:37PM +0200, l.mai at web.de wrote:
> Sun Sep 23 15:13:40 CEST 2007 l.mai at web.de
> * make spawn redirect std* to /dev/null
>
> spawn'd programs inherit their std{in,out,err} from xmonad. This can
> interfere with logHook logging because some programs dump debugging
> output to stdout or stderr. This patch therefore redirects all
> standard streams to /dev/null when a new program is started.
I'd prefer that this patch didn't go in. I'd rather be able to debug what
goes wrong when a spawned process doesn't work right. At least stderr
should be preserved.
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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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