On 2017-10-06, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@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... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I've got a COUSIN at who works in the GARMENT gmail.com DISTRICT ... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list