git-commit-vandalism/pager.c
Linus Torvalds f67b45f862 Introduce trivial new pager.c helper infrastructure
This introduces the new function

	void setup_pager(void);

to set up output to be written through a pager applocation.

All in preparation for doing the simple scripts in C.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-28 14:49:32 -08:00

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#include "cache.h"
/*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do
* something different on Windows, for example.
*/
static void run_pager(void)
{
const char *prog = getenv("PAGER");
if (!prog)
prog = "less";
setenv("LESS", "-S", 0);
execlp(prog, prog, NULL);
}
void setup_pager(void)
{
pid_t pid;
int fd[2];
if (!isatty(1))
return;
if (pipe(fd) < 0)
return;
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) {
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
return;
}
/* return in the child */
if (!pid) {
dup2(fd[1], 1);
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
return;
}
/* The original process turns into the PAGER */
dup2(fd[0], 0);
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
run_pager();
exit(255);
}