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* [PATCH] tools: libsubcmd: Drop the less hack that was inherited from Git.
@ 2018-01-24  0:38 Arvind Sankar
  2018-01-24 20:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Arvind Sankar @ 2018-01-24  0:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Josh Poimboeuf

We inherited this hack with the original code from the Git project. The
select call is invalid as the two fd_set pointers should not be aliased.

We could fix it, but the Git project removed this hack in 2012 in commit
e8320f3 (pager: drop "wait for output to run less" hack). The bug it
worked around was apparently fixed in less back in June 2007.

So remove the hack from here as well.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
---
 tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c       | 17 -----------------
 tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.c |  2 --
 tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.h |  1 -
 3 files changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c
index 5ba754d17952..94d61d9b511f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#include <sys/select.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -23,21 +22,6 @@ void pager_init(const char *pager_env)
 	subcmd_config.pager_env = pager_env;
 }
 
-static void pager_preexec(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Work around bug in "less" by not starting it until we
-	 * have real input
-	 */
-	fd_set in;
-
-	FD_ZERO(&in);
-	FD_SET(0, &in);
-	select(1, &in, NULL, &in, NULL);
-
-	setenv("LESS", "FRSX", 0);
-}
-
 static const char *pager_argv[] = { "sh", "-c", NULL, NULL };
 static struct child_process pager_process;
 
@@ -84,7 +68,6 @@ void setup_pager(void)
 	pager_argv[2] = pager;
 	pager_process.argv = pager_argv;
 	pager_process.in = -1;
-	pager_process.preexec_cb = pager_preexec;
 
 	if (start_command(&pager_process))
 		return;
diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.c
index 5cdac2162532..9e9dca717ed7 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.c
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 					unsetenv(*cmd->env);
 			}
 		}
-		if (cmd->preexec_cb)
-			cmd->preexec_cb();
 		if (cmd->exec_cmd) {
 			execv_cmd(cmd->argv);
 		} else {
diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.h b/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.h
index 17d969c6add3..6256268802b5 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.h
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/run-command.h
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ struct child_process {
 	unsigned no_stderr:1;
 	unsigned exec_cmd:1; /* if this is to be external sub-command */
 	unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1;
-	void (*preexec_cb)(void);
 };
 
 int start_command(struct child_process *);
-- 
2.13.6

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2018-01-24 20:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-25  8:16   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-01-25 13:24     ` Arvind Sankar
2018-02-03  0:38       ` Arvind Sankar
2018-02-09  0:00     ` Arvind Sankar
2018-02-09  1:17       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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