From f67b45f862d17b54037b9b59eefc385624d1fa83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:26:21 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- pager.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pager.c (limited to 'pager.c') diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1364e15d23 --- /dev/null +++ b/pager.c @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +#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); +} -- cgit v1.2.1