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
next prev parent 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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