Richard Braun <rbr...@sceen.net> skribis: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:09:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We have various issues with the active translators' stdout/stderr: >> >> - When mounting /proc from /etc/init.d/rc, stdout/stderr is closed, and >> thus as soon as e.g. mtab reports a warning, it gets SIGLOST and dies. >> - When mounting the cdrom image from debian installer scripts, the >> script is not considered finished since the isofs translator is still >> running and possibly emitting output. >> >> So, what should we do about stdout/stderr output? Do we require their >> output to be explicitly redirected by callers of mount and settrans? >> In the mount case, people used to Linux will not think of doing it, so >> perhaps we need it to do it for the user? > > I think we could have a default log server for that. We could make it > a gsoc project. It should make a good entry project.
In the meantime I suppose /dev/null would make for a good log server, and it’s presumably a simple fix? Ludo’.
