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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
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To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: Possible bug in /usr/bin/makewhatis.
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Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
>     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.

It also only happens if you are running ssh to logon to the computer
doing the makewhatis. You can telnet to the system and you don't see
the problem.

Kent

> 
>     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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Kent Stewart
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