Bug 71445

Summary:	equalizing the treatment of /dev/null in rc script [patch attached]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	redirections in the form '&> /dev/null' redirections in the form '&>/dev/null'

Description Benno Schulenberg 2004-11-16 14:20:35 UTC

The rc script uses several different ways of redirecting output 
to /dev/null.  Attached patches make all these redirections use 
the same manner, with or without spaces, as I can't figure out 
the preference.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Benno Schulenberg 2004-11-16 14:22:13 UTC

Created attachment 44098 [details, diff]
redirections in the form '&> /dev/null'

Comment 2 Benno Schulenberg 2004-11-16 14:22:53 UTC

Created attachment 44099 [details, diff]
redirections in the form '&>/dev/null'

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-11-16 16:38:02 UTC

there is no preference because these files are maintained by a couple of people ;)

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-11-16 18:48:53 UTC

went with the second patch, thanks