Re: Option -p in apropos(1)

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 May 2022, Rocky Hotas wrote:

> Pager formatting is enabled by default (so, it doesn't need neither
> option -p, nor option -P), but the pager is not activated. Results
> are presented as if the option was not specified.

apropos should call pclose(). Please try this patch below:

---START---
diff -urN usr.sbin/makemandb.orig/apropos.c usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.c
--- usr.sbin/makemandb.orig/apropos.c	2017-11-25 14:29:38.000000000 +0000
+++ usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.c	2022-05-16 20:26:55.134310194 +0000
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@
 	if (aflags.format == APROPOS_HTML)
 		fprintf(cbdata.out, "</table>\n</body>\n</html>\n");

+	pclose(cbdata.out);
 	free(query);

 	if (aflags.sections) {
---END---

-RVP