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[PATCH 08/11] run-command: Support sending stderr to /dev/null

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 11:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20071109110635.GH19368@spearce.org>

Some callers may wish to redirect stderr to /dev/null in some contexts, such as if they are executing a command only to get the exit status and don't want users to see whatever output it may produce as a side-effect of computing that exit status.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 run-command.c |    6 ++++--
 run-command.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index d99a6c4..476d00c 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 		cmd->close_out = 1;
 	}
 
-	need_err = cmd->err < 0;
+	need_err = !cmd->no_stderr && cmd->err < 0;
 	if (need_err) {
 		if (pipe(fderr) < 0) {
 			if (need_in)
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 			close(cmd->out);
 		}
 
-		if (need_err) {
+		if (cmd->no_stderr)
+			dup_devnull(2);
+		else if (need_err) {
 			dup2(fderr[1], 2);
 			close_pair(fderr);
 		}
diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h
index 94e1e9d..1fc781d 100644
--- a/run-command.h
+++ b/run-command.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct child_process {
 	unsigned close_out:1;
 	unsigned no_stdin:1;
 	unsigned no_stdout:1;
+	unsigned no_stderr:1;
 	unsigned git_cmd:1; /* if this is to be git sub-command */
 	unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1;
 };
-- 
1.5.3.5.1622.g41d10
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