Re: What is 'web--browse' on builtin-help.c ?

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Taeung,

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:46:40PM +0900, Taeung Song wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I’m checking perf-help subcommand and config ‘help.format’.
> source code for them contain functionality for info and web
> but functionality for info and web didn’t work well. ( there isn’t problems about ‘man’ )
> 
> So, I’m trying to fix the bugs.
> There is a function ‘open_html()’ on builtin-help.c as below.
> 
> 408 static void open_html(const char *path)
> 409 {
> 410         execl_perf_cmd("web--browse", "-c", "help.browser", path, NULL);
> 411 }
> 
> excel_perf_cmd() function lastly call execvp(“perf”, (char **)nargv)
> and then error messages like.
> 
> perf: 'web--browse' is not a perf-command.
> 
> Is this leftover from git source code ?

I think so, there's git-web--browse script to find and run available
web browser on a system.

Thanks,
Namhyung