Do not close stderr

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A few years ago, I wrote a post commenting on how ugly this was:
$ someprog 2>/dev/null
I was nearly imploring the reader to close stderr:
$ someprog 2>&-
Some very knowledgeable anonymous commenter explained why that was a bad idea. At the time, I didn’t understand exactly what they were saying. As such, …

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Originally posted 2009-09-15 21:24:53.

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