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cli: handle missing manpages gracefully

Instead of exiting when we can't find a manpage, set the command and continue so
that we can try the json rpc for help.

Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
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William Casarin 6 years ago
committed by Rusty Russell
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      cli/lightning-cli.c

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cli/lightning-cli.c

@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NO_ERROR 0
@ -171,9 +172,23 @@ static void add_input(char **cmd, const char *input,
}
static void
exec_man (const char *page) {
try_exec_man (const char *page) {
int status;
switch (fork()) {
case -1:
err(1, "Forking man command");
case 0:
/* child, run man command. */
execlp("man", "man", page, (char *)NULL);
err(1, "Running man command");
default:
break;
}
wait(&status);
if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0)
exit(0);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
@ -192,6 +207,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
int parserr;
enum format format = DEFAULT_FORMAT;
enum input input = DEFAULT_INPUT;
char *command = NULL;
err_set_progname(argv[0]);
jsmn_init(&parser);
@ -234,9 +250,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
/* Launch a manpage if we have a help command with an argument. We do
* not need to have lightningd running in this case. */
if (streq(method, "help") && format == HUMAN && argc >= 3) {
char command[strlen(argv[2]) + sizeof("lightning-")];
snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "lightning-%s", argv[2]);
exec_man(command);
command = argv[2];
char page[strlen(command) + sizeof("lightning-")];
snprintf(page, sizeof(page), "lightning-%s", command);
try_exec_man(page);
}
if (chdir(lightning_dir) != 0)

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