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>
quote.o read-cache.o refs.o run-command.o \
server-info.o setup.o sha1_file.o sha1_name.o strbuf.o \
tag.o tree.o usage.o config.o environment.o ctype.o copy.o \
- fetch-clone.o revision.o \
+ fetch-clone.o revision.o pager.o \
$(DIFF_OBJS)
LIBS = $(LIB_FILE)
extern int receive_unpack_pack(int fd[2], const char *me, int quiet);
extern int receive_keep_pack(int fd[2], const char *me, int quiet);
+/* pager.c */
+extern void setup_pager(void);
+
#endif /* CACHE_H */
--- /dev/null
+#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);
+}