Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <094EA76FEAA4D411968100508BD8BBF3020F51@EQUATOR> From: "Andrew Maguire (SWW)" To: "'Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de'" , mah@everybody.org, ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Cc: Keith Amidon , "rcp.el mailing list" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: tramp on NT emacs Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:03:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > /---- > | revision 1.312 > | date: 2000/05/12 21:04:20; author: grossjoh; state: Exp; > lines: +19 -4 > | Don't use "set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null". AIX chokes on > | redirecting stderr here?! > \---- > > Isn't that nice? So. Can we be sure that `ls' is never a shell > builtin, and that doing "2>/dev/null" on those commands never fails? > I think we cannot be sure. (And also, the exit status of `cd' is > sometimes queried, and that's always a shell builtin.) > > Does anybody have a suggestion? I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to solve ;-) but you might like to try: set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>&1 You may need to do it this way around: set +o history 2>&1 1>/dev/null Andrew -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple