[Xmonad] darcs patch: make spawn redirect std* to /dev/null

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Sun Sep 23 18:29:46 EDT 2007


On Sunday 23 September 2007 08:19:37 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.

The consensus seems to be that we should fix logHook rather than changing
spawn.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen




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