In any case, shouldn't there be more documentation about having classes of
messages, and the relation to --quiet? Or a suggestion to redirect to /dev/null
for complete silence?
--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Alasdair G Kergon <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Alasdair G Kergon <a...@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#520027: lvcraete, lvremove: explicitly mention in the man
> pages that --quiet is not implemented
> To: shaulk...@yahoo.com
> Cc: 520...@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 3:02 AM
> Nah, it is implemented.
>
> It probably doesn't behave the way you would expect.
> All it does is override any verbose or debug settings.
>
> It does not remove any other output issued by the program
> to stdout or stderr.
>
> So you'll still get warning messages.
>
> I'd reject that patch upstream, but instead suggest
> discussing whether to
> redefine --quiet to suppress additional classes of
> messages.
>
> Alasdair
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