[m-rev.] for review: source-linking for mdb

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Oct-2001, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 29-Oct-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 26-Oct-2001, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > +	/*
> > > +	** Try running the server with '--version', and see if the
> > > +	** output contains the string '+clientserver'.
> > > +	**
> > > +	** XXX if either server_cmd or fgrep is not found, the shell
> > > +	** will print an error message that will end up on our terminal.
> > > +	*/
> > > +	sprintf(system_call, "%s --version 2>&1 | fgrep -q '+clientserver'",
> > > +		server_cmd);
> > 
> > Any reason why you can't just add a "> /dev/null 2>&1" at the end of that
> > command?
> 
> Done.

What was wrong with the shell printing an error message that will end up
on our terminal?

If something goes wrong, the error message may well be helpful...

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