Re: bin/51039: makemandb(8): Check for return value of chdir(2)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51039; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/51039: makemandb(8): Check for return value of chdir(2)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:56:09 +0200

 On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 12:10:00AM +0000, er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > makemandb makes a call to chdir(2) before parsing each page but the
 > return value of chdir is not checked. We should check the return status
 > and handle the error.
 
 Actually, it would be better to just keep the parent directory open and
 use fchdir.
 
 Joerg