[pacman-dev] [PATCH 5/7] pacman-key: hide output of executed commands on logic checks

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 13:00:48 EDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:59 AM,  <ivan.kanak at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak at gmail.com>
>
> This commit correctly redirects to /dev/null the output of several
> commands that get executed on logic checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak at gmail.com>

Why? I personally hate losing everything, especially stderr, to the
trap that is /dev/null. Once there is problem most people like to know
what is actually going on rather than our likely oversimplified error
message.

-Dan


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