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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 44663@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#44663] [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:46:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z6673h8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201115184726.29944-1-me@tobias.gr> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:47:26 +0100")

Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> This is the convention elsewhere and sounds like the right thing to do.
>
> * guix/ui.scm (call-with-paginated-output-port): Substitute OPEN-PIPE
> for OPEN-PIPE*.
>
> Reported by Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>.

What’s the rationale though?  Are there cases where this makes a
practical difference?

I’m all for avoiding the shell if there’s no need for it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-15 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-15 18:47 [bug#44663] [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-15 19:46 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-15 20:46 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-15 21:38   ` Daniel Brooks
2020-11-16  8:16     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-29 16:43 ` [bug#44663] [PATCH v2] ui: Handle multiword and empty $PAGER values Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-29 16:56   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-08-03 20:02   ` bug#44663: [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-29 16:52 ` [bug#44663] " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via

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