7cae32ff49
Invoke "nroff" with "-S" (safer mode) option because "makewhatis" is
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usually invoked by "root".
2000-07-13 06:45:22 +00:00
714c921491
Kill "nroff" process and wait for its terminiation if we can't setup
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the "libz" file handle.
2000-07-13 06:29:43 +00:00
b238c131ce
Optimize invokation of "nroff":
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- Redirect standard error to "/dev/null" because "nroff" error messages
for temporary files aren't really useful.
- Don't let "nroff" open temporary file. Use its file descriptor as
standard input.
2000-07-13 06:15:03 +00:00
e6f40b0f96
Check exit code returned from "nroff" if it is used to convert
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unformatted manual pages.
2000-07-10 08:11:31 +00:00
93cb6f8300
Invoke "nroff" and parse its output if an unformatted manual page uses
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macros. Fixes PR bin/9083 by Geoff C. Wing.
2000-07-09 23:07:14 +00:00
91e1f3f01b
Don't write leading white spaces and directory names to whatis file.
2000-01-24 23:03:54 +00:00
e9a72ad0a3
Accept all kind of whitespaces when searching for the end of a nroff
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macro.
1999-12-31 14:50:16 +00:00
3434166ef3
Correct and improve nroff macro stripping. Partially fixes PR bin/9083
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by Geoff C. Wing.
1999-12-31 14:28:03 +00:00
a0ed22ea5f
Recognize manual page sections "l" and "n" used by the package system.
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This fixes PR bin/8977 by Thilo Manske.
1999-12-11 20:30:30 +00:00
9cc91f68f9
Set file modes of whatis.db database file to 444 like the old script did.
1999-09-25 21:40:58 +00:00
a834c2ce72
Fix incorrect error check after writing database file.
1999-09-25 21:25:55 +00:00
ceb9bcabf8
Replace shell script for creating whatis.db database with a C program
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which is a little bit faster.
1999-09-25 21:17:37 +00:00
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