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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Joe Smith wrote:
> Jim Trocki wrote:
> > ...
> > the safest bet would be to pass it an argument telling it what
> > the behavior should be...
>
> And isn't the simplest 'argument' to pass '>/dev/null' ;-)
>/dev/null doesn't make the program suppress its output, it simply throws
it away. there's a difference, but i'm not sure if it even matters for
Urb's situation. let's let him decide.
"background process" is a meaningless (or at best undefined) label in
unixland, anyway :)
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