Re: Console anyone ?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 24 May 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > For those who are interested, I've created the (suitably edited) strace
> > output files for two commands:
> >
> >   1) bash -c "exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display localhost:0 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> >   2) bash -c "exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display localhost:0 2>&1 >/dev/null &
> >
> > Both xterms then had the "net help" command run in them, followed by
> > "exit".
> >
> > The diffs between the two should be informative.  Unfortunately, I don't
> > have the knowledge of the code necessary to spot the significance of the
> > differences, and no time right now for the learning curve.  Hope this
> > helps someone else track this down.
>
> The difference between the two lines is
> 1) redirects stdout to /dev/null and stderr to stdout
> 2) redirects stderr to stdout and stdout to /dev/null (which also redirects
>     stderr to /dev/null)
>
> bye
>     ago

Alexander,

That's exactly the difference.  The thing is that in one case programs
like "net" pop up a new window for the output, and in the other they
don't.  I was hoping that these traces would help us make the necessary
changes to cygwin1.dll to avoid this problem.
	Igor
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