[qitab-devel] default (interactive) output mode for run in inferior-shell

[huang ying]

Most shell programs (bash etc) use "inherit from parent" as default, why
inferior use "redirect to /dev/null" as default?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying



On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Huang Ying,
>
> > I found in README of inferior-shell, it is said that the default output
> mode
> > is as follow:
> >
> >   NIL (default) for inheriting the parent process's stdout,
> >
> > But in recent uiop implementation, the ":output nil" means to redirect to
> > /dev/null, while ":output :interactive" means to inherate the parent
> > process's stdout (at least for sbcl).
> >
> > So I think we should change the default value of output parameter for
> run or
> > change the README.
> >
> > What do you think about that?
> >
> Thanks for the bug report.
> I've slightly edited the README for now.
> And some people claim that the concept of "bitrot" is impossible!
>
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