Bug 142936 (IT_65243)
| Summary: | makewhatis can't handle a directory in a manpage directory | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Pete Fritchman <petef> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | cww, tao |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2005-326 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-28 19:51:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 156320 | ||
Thank you for your notice. The new version is in errata process now. Ivana Varekova An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-326.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: The readline() function in the awk in makewhatis calls "getline" on every file it tries to parse (awk's input). makewhatis feeds awk like this: find . -name '*' $findarg -print | $AWK ... This could include a directory (we have an "OLD" directory in /usr/local/man/man* because our local install(1) binary creates it as a backout path; there could be a directory here for any reason, though). getline in awk throws an error on a directory. There's no point in feeding awk directories (or anything other than files) if we know it won't be able to handle them. I propose: find . -name '*' $findarg \! -type d -print | $AWK ... I can't decide if "-maxdepth 1" should also be added to exclude files in subdirectories -- we want to exclude them in this specific case (OLD backout files), but I'm not sure if there's ever a legitimate case where you want to look at man files in subdirs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5k-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir /usr/local/man/man1/OLD 2. makewhatis -w Actual Results: awk: cmd. line:10: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: file `./OLD' is a directory Expected Results: We should not have fed a directory to awk that uses "getline" which only works on a file. Additional info: