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Re: [dmidecode] dmidecode should omit warning about SMBIOS version when
From: |
Petter Reinholdtsen |
Subject: |
Re: [dmidecode] dmidecode should omit warning about SMBIOS version when -q is set |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:36:00 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
[Jens Rosenboom]
> As in particular scripts call dmidecode often with -s (implying -q)
> and expect to get only a single word (and in particular only a
> single line of output), I propose that in this case the warning
> about an unsupported SMBIOS version should be ommited. Most scripts
> won't be able to handle the warning properly anyway, also most -s
> options should still continue to work. My patch would look like
> this:
What about sending the warning to stderr instead? This way scripts
looking on stdin will not notice, while the info is still emitted.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
Re: [dmidecode] dmidecode should omit warning about SMBIOS version when -q is set, Erwan Velu, 2014/03/17