On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:25:12AM -0300, Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:
> > Why do all graphical browsers are called with their stdout/stderr
> > redirected
> > to /dev/null?
>
> Under some linux distros (I'm positive for some Mdk releases), Mozilla is
> compiled dumping a lot of info to stdout/stderr. Since one of the goals of
> webbrowser is to give the end-user a stress-free experience, there goes the
> mentioned nullification <wink>.
I see the point. Still I don't know what is worse and more stressful
- to hide errors or to show errors.
MandrakeZilla spits too much to stdout/err? That's certainly a
problem. Should we "fix" it and hide from the user? I don't think so.
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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