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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Possible bug in /usr/bin/makewhatis.
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    I was doing some installworlds and got a bunch of 'gzcat: Broken pipe'
    errors at the very end when it was doing 'makewhatis' on various manual
    directories.

    I believe the problem is related to the makewhatis perl script closing
    the input descriptor before draining all the input, but not being a
    perl progammer I can't tell for sure.  The place where the perl program
    appeared to be closing the input prematurely is here:

        # ``man'' style pages
        # &&: it takes you only half the user time, regexp is slow!!!
        if (/^\.SH/ && /^\.SH[ \t]+["]?($section_name)["]?/) {
            #while(<F>) { last unless /^\./ } # Skip
            #chop; $list = $_;
            while(<F>) {
                last if /^\.SH[ \t]/;	<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< here
                chop;
                s/^\.IX\s.*//;            # delete perlpod garbage
                s/^\.[A-Z]+[ ]+[0-9]+$//; # delete commands
                s/^\.[A-Za-z]+[ \t]*//;   # delete commands
                s/^\.\\".*$//;            #" delete comments
                s/^[ \t]+//;
                if ($_) {
                    $list .= $_;
                    $list .= ' ';
                }
            }
	    &out($list); close F; return 1;	<<<<<<<<<<<< closing here
	...

    Could someone take a look at that?   There might be other places as well.
    Thanks!

						-Matt



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