Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
root%garbled.net@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:57:15 +0530

 On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> 
wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
 > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:31:13 +0400
 >
 >  On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:35:01 +0000, root%garbled.net@localhost wrote:
 >
 >  > If I want to find usbdevs, apparently I have to do -C8 ??
 >
 >  Apparently apropos now prints (silently) just the first 10 results!
 >
 >  You need to use -p to tell it to return everything.  Except the way -p
 >  invokes pager seems broken since it uses popen.
 
 I looked at how git-log achieves the same. It seems, it forks less as
 a child process and creates a pipe between less' s stdin and its own
 stdout using pipe and dup2. I will try that as well.
 
 --
 Abhinav