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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:09:26 +0100 (BST)
From:      brian@Awfulhak.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/19858: mergemasters interpretation of $PAGER is incorrect [PATCH]
Message-ID:  <200007120109.CAA29246@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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>Number:         19858
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mergemasters interpretation of $PAGER is incorrect [PATCH]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 11 18:20:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian Somers
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Awfulhak Ltd.
>Environment:

	Stock -current system

>Description:

	Mergemaster treats ``more'' as an exception to it's requirement
that $PAGER specifies a full path name.  It also tests if ${PAGER%% *}
is executable which is incorrect when ${PAGER} is not absolute.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Run mergemaster with a $PAGER that contains a non-absolute path name.

>Fix:

Index: mergemaster.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 mergemaster.sh
--- mergemaster.sh	2000/05/12 03:09:57	1.8
+++ mergemaster.sh	2000/06/30 10:04:40
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
 #
 case "${DONT_CHECK_PAGER}" in
 '')
-  while [ "${PAGER}" != "more" -a -n "${PAGER}" -a ! -x "${PAGER%% *}" ]; do
+  while ! type "${PAGER%% *}" >/dev/null && [ -n "$PAGER" ]; do
     echo " *** Your PAGER environment variable specifies '${PAGER}', but"
     echo "     I cannot execute it. In general it is good practice to"
     echo "     specify the full path for environment variables like"


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