Bug 278378

Summary:	man(1) ignores corrupt gzip'd manual pages
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	---
Version:	15.0-CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
Bug Depends on:	223516
Bug Blocks:

Description Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer

2024-04-15 12:59:11 UTC

man(1) ignores errors from gzip if a file is corrupt. You can see the errors from gzip on stderr, but the exit status of man(1) will be zero.

How to repeat:

$ touch /tmp/bla.1.gz

$ /usr/bin/man /tmp/bla.1.gz >/dev/null; echo $?
gzcat: /tmp/bla.1.gz: unexpected end of file
gzcat: /tmp/bla.1.gz: unexpected end of file
gzcat: /tmp/bla.1.gz: unexpected end of file
0

In case of an error, man(1) should exit with a non-zero status.

Comment 1 Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer

2024-04-20 08:34:51 UTC

Fixed by 14a5c1068d3751173dc41f3097b12e95791b2160