Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/54343; 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
Subject: Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:50:26 +0530

 On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 12:55 AM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > >Number:         54343
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       "man -k config | less" broken
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 04 19:25:01 +0000 2019
 > >Originator:     Thomas Klausner
 > >Release:        NetBSD 8.99.47
 > >Organization:
 > Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
 > curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.
 > - Arnold Edinborough
 > >Environment:
 > Architecture: x86_64
 > Machine: amd64
 > >Description:
 > man -k config
 >
 > spams the screen.
 > So I tried redirecting it through less, but then I get nothing.
 >
 > I also tried
 > man -k config 2>&1 | less
 > because I thought it might be written to stderr, but that didn't work either.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > see above
 > >Fix:
 > I suggest so, yes.
 
 I tried to reproduce this on fresh VM (NetBSD 9.99.8 amd64) but it
 works there. There were a couple of bugs (specifically when
 redirecting the output to less) which I fixed a while back (in
 revision 1.42 of apropos-utils.c). I think this should not be
 happening anymore, could you confirm if it is still an issue and any
 specific setup or steps to reproduce?
 
 Regards
 Abhinav