Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/30542: [PATCH] add -q option to shut up killall Message-ID: <200109131120.f8DBK2L52648@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/30542; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/30542: [PATCH] add -q option to shut up killall Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:19:13 -0700 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > >Description: > Somewhere (can't remember where) I saw some code that did a > `killall >/dev/null 2>&1` which made me think there should be > a -q option. Why? That's what redirects are for. I don't see anything wrong with the above construct. It seems silly to add a "shut up" option to every program; if we wanted to do that, why did we have redirects and /dev/null in the first place? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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