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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:45:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437AAB48.7090904@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051116002318.A46C55BF97@nox.op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>  
> +static void show_man_page(char *git_cmd)
> +{
> +	char *page;
> +
> +	if (!strncmp(git_cmd, "git", 3))
> +		page = git_cmd;
> +	else {
> +		int page_len = strlen(git_cmd) + 4;
> +
> +		page = malloc(page_len + 1);
> +		strcpy(page, "git-");
> +		strcpy(page + 4, git_cmd);
> +		page[page_len] = 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	execlp("man", "man", page, NULL);
> +}
> +

The way this made it into the actual tree was to call /usr/bin/man, but 
still using execlp().  This is clearly bogus.  There *ARE* good reasons 
to use PATH resolutions for this, since man is one of the interactive 
commands the user may want to wrapper.

So please drop PATH_TO_MAN that made it into the repository and revert 
to the original patch.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16  0:23 [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-16  3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-11-16  6:56   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-16  7:17     ` [PATCH] git wrapper: basic fixes Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16  8:22       ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-16  7:29   ` [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16 21:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-16 23:16       ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-16 23:17         ` H. Peter Anvin

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