From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>, ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] git ptx-patches fails
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:07:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16825117.7fFJm0Hm9F@ws-stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140401123030.GC29751@pengutronix.de>
Hello Uwe,
On Tuesday 01 April 2014 14:30:30, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > I don't think this is related to man (what's man-db BTW?) at all.
> man-db is the package that provides /usr/bin/man on Debian. Also man-db
> from Debian unstable (i.e. 2.6.6) is unaffected.
>
> > I think the versions of cat and grep behave differently. I have
> At least my grep also closes its input with -q and makes cat unhappy:
>
> $ { seq 1 2000 | cat; echo >&2 $?; } | grep -q 1
> 141
> $ { seq 1 2000 | cat; echo >&2 $?; } | grep 1 > /dev/null
> 0
Both commands work well here:
$ { seq 1 2000 | cat; echo >&2 $?; } | grep -q 1
0
$ { seq 1 2000 | cat; echo >&2 $?; } | grep 1 > /dev/null
0
> So I still think it's a man problem. Reading the output of
>
> strace -o /tmp/tralala man git-format-patch | grep -q -e --notes
>
> "my" man doesn't use system to render the manpage. At least it doesn't
> do any execvp and it opens /usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.gz
> itself.
You might be missing the -f option? My strace shows several execve. One of them is
> execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "/bin/bzip2 -c -d /usr/share/man/"...], [/* 120 vars */]) = 0
> So again, what is your man version?
>
> > installed grep-2.16 and coreutils-8.21 (current Gentoo stable
> > versions).
> For completeness although I think its proven to be unrelated:
> grep 2.12-2 + coreutils 8.13-3.5 (i.e. Debian stable)
I have man-1.6g
Best regards,
Alexander
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-27 7:16 Alexander Stein
2014-03-29 9:28 ` Michael Olbrich
2014-03-31 17:08 ` Alexander Stein
2014-04-01 8:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-04-01 9:24 ` Alexander Stein
2014-04-01 9:37 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-04-01 9:59 ` Alexander Stein
2014-04-01 10:55 ` Michael Olbrich
2014-04-01 12:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-04-01 13:07 ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2014-04-01 13:53 ` Alexander Stein
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