[gpm] Fwd: Patch to implement "gpm -V"

[Alessandro Rubini]

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> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:45:25 -0400
> From: Matt <matt@ioioio.net>
> To: gpm@lists.linux.it
> Subject: Patch to implement "gpm -V"
> Message-ID: <20050830114525.A30353@ducks.openverse.com>
> 
> http://matt.ioioio.net/gpm-1.20.1-matt.patch
> (~3 KB)
> 
> This patch attempts to implement "gpm -V", as part of a small effort to
> make gpm work under D. J. Bernstein's daemontools package
> (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html).
> 
> Judging by the usage info (man 8 gpm), the verbosity level should be one
> of the values used by syslog, where 0 is the most important and 7 is the
> least important.  But gpm has fewer internal levels of verbosity, and
> the values are in the opposite order: 2 is the least important and 6 is
> the most important.  This patch follows gpm's internal conventions; the
> semantics are a bit strange, but it mostly does what the user expects.
> 
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