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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:16:11 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man(1) output error
Message-ID:  <20101031071611.916fe7e0.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4cccf7f9.0UgCkeA%2Bowm8JoKb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010282232340.58967@wonkity.com> <AANLkTimvdoceCoBhpiLGUkftLN0L=qfVV0nm_aD49kR7@mail.gmail.com> <20101029185853.0631917f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101029184958.GE2439@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010301810530.6585@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010302050110.7006@wonkity.com> <4cccf7f9.0UgCkeA%2Bowm8JoKb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:00:41 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Does it by any chance go away if you cause "less" to read the
> pipe all the way to EOF, e.g. by entering G, before exiting?

In this case - no error message (either by typing G, End, or
manually scrolling through the whole manpage).

% man csh | less
:q
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 36096
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 36096
No manual entry for csh
% 

% man csh | less
:G
(END)
:q
% 



> If so, there may be a problem in the way man handles SIGPIPE.

Would be understandable.


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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