sticking it to the man(1)
A good strategy for learning is doing, so that's what I've been up to for the past week. Sure, I've also had my nose in Solaris Internals intermittently, but there's some things that reading won't teach you. One of these is the build process, which I find documented not very well for OS. Fortunately, Dave Bustos helped me out with an overview of the bringover/workspace process and ~bustos/bin/compile, the silver bullet of compile scripts.
My first bug, "5021976 man cannot handle getcwd() failures," went fairly smoothly, and hopefully I'll get to putback it soon. It stems from the fact that man can handle relative MANPATH entries (!), which presents a problem if you can't find the current directory.
Old solution: bork
New solution: skip relative search paths only
I'm about a week behind in blogging at this point; hopefully it'll catch up sooner or later. Enough of this little trip down memory lane for now.
My first bug, "5021976 man cannot handle getcwd() failures," went fairly smoothly, and hopefully I'll get to putback it soon. It stems from the fact that man can handle relative MANPATH entries (!), which presents a problem if you can't find the current directory.
Old solution: bork
New solution: skip relative search paths only
I'm about a week behind in blogging at this point; hopefully it'll catch up sooner or later. Enough of this little trip down memory lane for now.
Posted by John Levon on June 12, 2007 at 06:31 PM PDT #
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