On 09/23/2012 12:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I think there was general consensus that the status=noinfo should be applied
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00159.html
>
> I'll look at that this evening.

I changed things a bit in the attached patch.
I used 'status=none' rather than 'status=noinfo',
to make it obvious all stderr messages were being suppressed.
Also, I kept the bitmask nature of the existing code
to make it more consistent and extendible.

cheers,
Pádraig.