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diff --git a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn
index 646738b1..1e8c4ef6 100644
--- a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ is included in the section entitled
[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
Sometimes it may already be helpful to capture a translator's `stdout` and
-`stderr`, for example like this:
+`stderr`, for example in this situation where [[translator/pfinet]] was
+silently dying all the time, without any console output:
$ sudo settrans -fgap ↩
/servers/socket/2 ↩
@@ -31,3 +32,7 @@ for appropriate `fflush`es on these, or force them to be line buffered again
using the appropriate glibc magic (`setvbuf`). Otherwise you'll see text in
the output files only if either glibc herself decides to flush (after some KiB
of text) the after translator exits.
+
+It is a [[!taglink open_issue_hurd]] to decide / implement / fix that
+(all?) running (passive?) translators' output should show up on the
+console / syslog.