On Sep 23, 2007, at 15:16 , David Roundy wrote:
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.
I was thinking it would be nice to be able to specify a logfile for random program stdout/stderr. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH