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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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 23:29:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbr0law3z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437AAB48.7090904@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:45:12 -0800")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> 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.

Oh, that was my call, so please do not blame Andreas.
I just sent out a proposed patch to address all the points
discussed on the list for the last several hours.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16  7:30 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
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   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-11-16 21:53     ` [PATCH 3/3] git --help COMMAND brings up the git-COMMAND man-page., take two H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-16 23:16       ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-16 23:17         ` H. Peter Anvin

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