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pager: do not fork a pager if PAGER is set to empty. 

This skips an extra pipe, and helps debugging tremendously.

[jc: PAGER=cat is a questionable hack and should be done as a separate
patch. ]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
maint
Johannes Schindelin 2006-04-16 04:44:25 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 2935327394
commit 402461aab1
1 changed files with 10 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -5,22 +5,24 @@
* something different on Windows, for example.
*/

static void run_pager(void)
static void run_pager(const char *pager)
{
const char *prog = getenv("PAGER");
if (!prog)
prog = "less";
setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
execlp(prog, prog, NULL);
execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
}

void setup_pager(void)
{
pid_t pid;
int fd[2];
const char *pager = getenv("PAGER");

if (!isatty(1))
return;
if (!pager)
pager = "less";
else if (!*pager)
return;

if (pipe(fd) < 0)
return;
pid = fork();
@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);

run_pager();
setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
run_pager(pager);
exit(255);
}