Interactive scripts (back on topic for once) [was Re: The "loop and a half"]
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 14:33:59 EDT 2017
On 2017-10-06, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> The reason a daemon usually opens dummy file descriptors for the 0, 1
> and 2 slots is to avoid accidents. Some library might assume the
> existence of those file descriptors. For example, I often see GTK print
> out diagnositic messages.
I run a lot of GTK programs from the command line, and I would say 90%
or more of them spew a steady stream of meaningless (to the user)
diagnostic messages. That's pretty sloppy programming if you ask
me...
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