"H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message news:mailman.824.1329867308.20196.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > You can do: > > program_name >/dev/null 2>&1 & > > That will silence everything. But yeah, too much typing, too much > obscure stdout/stderr redirecting for a newbie to even begin to dream > that such things are possible. > > A good default behaviour (for the app writer) is to fork() at startup, > detach from pty in child, and then exit parent. A couple o' programs do > this. >
Clever, I like it! I'm gonna try to remember that next time I start doing desktop-GUI stuff again. > > I'm pretty sure this is common knowledge, just that nobody bothers to do > it. But I can dream. :) > It's news to me, but then again, I'm far from being a Linux veteran. There are a *lot* of things to know about in Linux, though, and there's no standard learner's curriculum. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of experienced Linux users that don't know at least one or two "basic" things. Hell I bet my knowledge is probably a mix of "some of the basics" and "some of the advanced".
