Re: [uml-user] Silent uml_switch

[Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...>]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:19, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Using > /dev/null 2>&1 is not suitable?
>
> Well yes, that might also help.
> However, when you supply a daemon mode, I think it is also a good idea to
> add a silent feature, so that it is more easily and cleanly scriptable.

Hmm. It's a possibility, implemented and attached (1st uml_switch-* then 
use-sil_-funcs), but I don't like it. Unless we don't use syslog(3), or at 
least errors early at boot are reported.

> > In fact, docs do not talk about '-daemon' - I was the first to document
> > it when happening to see it in sources. The web page says:

> Well, Matt Zimmerman of the Debian team also found it and even wrote a
> whole nice man page for uml_switch (and other tools) that comes with
> "apt-get install uml-utilities" :)

Nice to know. I've received the man pages from Debian maintainers and I'll 
integrate them.

> I'm sorry, but I don't really know how to get more information besides
> that...

No problem, what you say is already enough for me to conclude that things are 
ok with the patch.
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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