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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2008-06-27 22:31:07 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2008-06-27 22:31:07 +0000
commitb75fe798bb26fbf16a3251decd72bc20b44a00c5 (patch)
treecc11b07df97c84c6fb90c8c6913726b8dd25eec6 /miscutils/man.c
parentce02b157beff1a8031595364c2fb654034e608b5 (diff)
downloadbusybox-b75fe798bb26fbf16a3251decd72bc20b44a00c5.tar.gz
stat: pointers are not 0L, they are NULL
man: better error handling
Diffstat (limited to 'miscutils/man.c')
-rw-r--r--miscutils/man.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index 020310677..9ef1ef4a6 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename)
return 1;
}
- cmd = xasprintf("%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | %s",
+ /* "2>&1" added so that nroff errors are shown in pager too.
+ * Otherwise it may show just empty screen */
+ cmd = xasprintf("%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | %s",
unpacker, man_filename, pager);
system(cmd);
free(cmd);
@@ -123,6 +125,11 @@ int man_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
fclose(cf);
}
+// TODO: my man3/getpwuid.3.gz contains just one line:
+// .so man3/getpwnam.3
+// (and I _dont_ have man3/getpwnam.3, I have man3/getpwnam.3.gz)
+// need to support this...
+
not_found = 0;
do { /* for each argv[] */
int found = 0;