I’ve released libpipeline 1.2.1, and uploaded it to Debian unstable. This is a bug-fix release:
EINTR.pipeline_want_outfile; these
are now created if they do not already exist, and truncated if they do.<pipeline.h> is …I’ve released libpipeline 1.1.0, and uploaded it to Debian unstable. The changes are mostly just to add a few occasionally useful interfaces:
pipecmd_exec to execute a single command, replacing the current
process; this is analogous to execvp.pipecmd_clearenv to clear a command’s environment; this …In my previous post, I described the pipeline library from man-db and asked whether people were interested in a standalone release of it. Several people expressed interest, and so I’ve now released libpipeline version 1.0.0. It’s in the Debian NEW queue, and my PPA contains packages …
When I took over man-db in 2001, one of the
major problems that became evident after maintaining it for a while was the
way it handled subprocesses. The nature of man and friends means that it
spends a lot of time calling sequences of programs such as zsoelim <
input-file | tbl …