[BusyBox] Patch to add quiet flag to mount/umount

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 02 July 2004 01:11, Stephan Linz wrote:
> Am Freitag,  2. Juli 2004 06:45 schrieb Erico Mendonca:
> > This is a patch to add a "-q" (quiet mode) parameter to mount and
> > umount. These should suppress any error or status messages when used.
> >
> > These are made against busybox-1.00-pre10.
> >
> > I hope this can be useful to somebody...
>
> Hm, I think the most people will want to use a redirection to /dev/null
> (something like 2>/dev/null) to suppress any error messages. This new
> option is nice to have and you schould enclose your q-option-code with a
> CPP define to save space for anybody who doesn't want to use this
> functionality.

It might be smaller to have -q do "dup2(open("/dev/null"),2);".  One line, no 
changes needed to the rest of the program.  Might be small enough not to need 
an #ifdef then...

(Sadly, you can't just close(2), because then the next open will re-use it...)

> Best regards,
> Stephan Linz

Rob

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