Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

2006-11-22 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Actually, I have merged the patch in the next release candidate but I cannot release it in the current form (attached). Here is the problem: once the patch is in place, the quoted mode of the is_shell_safe() function becomes useless, as the main difference is an increment to skip checking for

Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

2006-04-24 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Hello Bruce, Thank you for the report. This is a known issue in 1.6c (broken makewhatis), I must admit I goofed up. The fix is in 1.6d yet to be released (I did not rush a release containing only that fix as downstream packagers added fixes of their own promptly, saving me the effort). 1.6d is me

Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

2006-04-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Bruce Jones writes: > Version info: > Windows XP Pro SP1 > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 > Man 1.5p-1 > The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a > space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username" The me

Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

2006-04-21 Thread Bruce Jones
Version info: Windows XP Pro SP1 CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 Man 1.5p-1 The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username" The message is: /usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 380: cd: /cygdrive/c/Docu