On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:09:30AM -0700, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:38 -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
>> The other problems you mentioned seem trivial. Redirecting greps stderr 
>> to /dev/null solves the second 2. There are a number of simple ways to 
>> solve the first.
>
>  What about the race? That's always been one of my personal pet peeves 
>as far as any shell programming goes.

Redirecting to /dev/null. The only real issue with the race is that 
there's an error message printed. Hiding the error message from grep is 
basically the same as not printing it in lsof.c.

-- 
Kris Maglione

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.