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

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:19:37PM +0200, l.mai@web.de wrote:

Sun Sep 23 15:13:40 CEST 2007 l.mai@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. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University