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, 
	Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:17:13 +0530

 On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:00 PM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/54343; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken
 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:27:53 +0200
 >
 >  On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:25:02AM +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 >  >  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?
 >
 >  I just tried and can still reproduce on 9.99.7/amd64 (native).
 >
 >  # echo $TERM
 >  xterm-256color
 >  # man -k config
 >  ... (lots of output) ...
 >  # man -k config 2>&1 | less
 >  (nothing)
 >  #
 >
 >  What more information could be relevant?
 
 That is weird. What if you try apropos config | less?
 Also, just to be sure could you provide the output of ident `which
 apropos` | grep apropos :)
 
 Regards
 Abhinav