[tor-bugs] #26888 [Core Tor/Torsocks]: torsocks: --quiet option

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#26888: torsocks: --quiet option
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     Reporter:  ilf                |      Owner:  dgoulet
         Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium             |  Milestone:
    Component:  Core Tor/Torsocks  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal             |   Keywords:  torsocks, quiet, option
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 IMHO, torsocks could use a --quiet option.

 Interactively, torsocks errors and warnings regularly interfere with
 ncurses rendering, which create annoying display issues in applications
 like Mutt.

 In scripts, torsocks errors and warnings make STDERR more verbose.
 Filtering Torsocks STDERR also takes away the STDERR of the actual
 applications I torify. I might be interested in applications STDERR but
 not torsocks STDERR. There's probably a way to achieve that, but torsocks
 --quiet would be really simple.

 Since torsocks fails closed, I would feel comfortable to use torsocks in a
 --quiet mode in these cases.

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