From fafb6eccc2c9e3f8d6ce0aad9cb428f8cc402b24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:06:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] journalctl: fix ellipsization with PAGER=cat

There are other reasons for not opening the pager then the --no-pager
or --follow options (described below). If the pager is not used,
messages must be ellipsized.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:42:44AM +0000, Shawn Landen wrote:
> "Pager to use when --no-pager is not given; overrides $PAGER.
> Setting this to an empty string or the value cat is equivalent to passing --no-pager."
---
 src/journal/journalctl.c |  6 +-----
 src/shared/pager.c       | 17 ++++++++++-------
 src/shared/pager.h       |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index e9810c9a3..e633dd34d 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -398,11 +398,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 goto finish;
         }
 
-        have_pager = !arg_no_pager && !arg_follow;
-        if (have_pager) {
-                columns();
-                pager_open();
-        }
+        have_pager = !arg_no_pager && !arg_follow && pager_open();
 
         if (arg_output == OUTPUT_JSON) {
                 fputc('[', stdout);
diff --git a/src/shared/pager.c b/src/shared/pager.c
index 6a85af33c..36b409c07 100644
--- a/src/shared/pager.c
+++ b/src/shared/pager.c
@@ -44,20 +44,20 @@ _noreturn_ static void pager_fallback(void) {
         _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 
-void pager_open(void) {
+bool pager_open(void) {
         int fd[2];
         const char *pager;
         pid_t parent_pid;
 
         if (pager_pid > 0)
-                return;
+                return false;
 
         if ((pager = getenv("SYSTEMD_PAGER")) || (pager = getenv("PAGER")))
                 if (!*pager || streq(pager, "cat"))
-                        return;
+                        return false;
 
         if (isatty(STDOUT_FILENO) <= 0)
-                return;
+                return false;
 
         /* Determine and cache number of columns before we spawn the
          * pager so that we get the value from the actual tty */
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void pager_open(void) {
 
         if (pipe(fd) < 0) {
                 log_error("Failed to create pager pipe: %m");
-                return;
+                return false;
         }
 
         parent_pid = getpid();
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void pager_open(void) {
         if (pager_pid < 0) {
                 log_error("Failed to fork pager: %m");
                 close_pipe(fd);
-                return;
+                return false;
         }
 
         /* In the child start the pager */
@@ -115,10 +115,13 @@ void pager_open(void) {
         }
 
         /* Return in the parent */
-        if (dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO) < 0)
+        if (dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO) < 0) {
                 log_error("Failed to duplicate pager pipe: %m");
+                return false;
+        }
 
         close_pipe(fd);
+        return true;
 }
 
 void pager_close(void) {
diff --git a/src/shared/pager.h b/src/shared/pager.h
index dcd61957e..0b4afc04b 100644
--- a/src/shared/pager.h
+++ b/src/shared/pager.h
@@ -21,5 +21,7 @@
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ***/
 
-void pager_open(void);
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+bool pager_open(void);
 void pager_close(void);
-- 
2.30.2