[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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