From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Sep 15 9:10: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECA137B40B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8FGA3k08702; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109151610.f8FGA3k08702@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: bin/30542: [PATCH] add -q option to shut up killall Reply-To: Dima Dorfman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/30542; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/30542: [PATCH] add -q option to shut up killall Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:01:21 -0700 Garrett Wollman wrote: > < > said: > > > Why? That's what redirects are for. > > Redirects are not content-sensitive. In the case of `killall', it is > entirely legitimate to want to suppress the ``no matching processes > found'' while still displaying any other error messages which might be > generated. Okay, agreed. How about just changing the output stream for that message to stdout instead of stderr? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message