Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.2-1
Severity: normal
Current "man -a" uses /dev/tty unconditionally. This means no way to use
for scripting usage, or such.
For example, emacs can view all manpages via (setq Man-switches "-a").
With this configuration, emacs does
man -a <name> | post-process
But current man version asks via /dev/tty in background, and bother emacs.
Also simple example is,
$ man -a <name> | less
Older versions can show all manpages as contiguous file. Current version
ask to user via /dev/tty in background from man command, totally useless.
The following patch restores the behavior of older version.
Thanks.
src/man.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN src/man.c~script-usage-fix src/man.c
--- man-db-2.7.2/src/man.c~script-usage-fix 2015-09-05 23:16:15.120264227
+0900
+++ man-db-2.7.2-hirofumi/src/man.c 2015-09-05 23:28:19.507147470 +0900
@@ -2015,6 +2015,10 @@ static inline int do_prompt (const char
FILE *tty = NULL;
skip = 0;
+ /* If no interactive, choose "view" without asking */
+ if (!isatty (STDOUT_FILENO) || !isatty (STDIN_FILENO))
+ return 0;
+
tty = fopen ("/dev/tty", "r+");
if (!tty)
return 0;
_
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.18.5 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.6
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57
ii dpkg 1.18.2
ii groff-base 1.22.3-1
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-13.1
ii libpipeline1 1.4.1-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii epiphany-browser [www-browser] 3.16.3-1
ii groff 1.22.3-1
ii less 458-3
ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.9dev6-3
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-24
-- debconf information:
* man-db/install-setuid: false
man-db/auto-update: true
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>
