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* mandoc: In man(7) and cat pages, cut off excessive one line
@ 2018-02-07 20:32 schwarze
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From: schwarze @ 2018-02-07 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Log Message:
-----------
In man(7) and cat pages, cut off excessive one line descriptions.
An extreme example of how rogue files could mess up apropos(1) output
was reported by bentley@: qwtlicense(3) in the x11/qwt port.

Modified Files:
--------------
    mandoc:
        mandocdb.c

Revision Data
-------------
Index: mandocdb.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandocdb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.256
retrieving revision 1.257
diff -Lmandocdb.c -Lmandocdb.c -u -p -r1.256 -r1.257
--- mandocdb.c
+++ mandocdb.c
@@ -1373,7 +1373,12 @@ parse_cat(struct mpage *mpage, int fd)
 		plen -= 2;
 	}
 
-	mpage->desc = mandoc_strdup(p);
+	/*
+	 * Cut off excessive one-line descriptions.
+	 * Bad pages are not worth better heuristics.
+	 */
+
+	mpage->desc = mandoc_strndup(p, 150);
 	fclose(stream);
 	free(title);
 }
@@ -1517,7 +1522,12 @@ parse_man(struct mpage *mpage, const str
 			while (' ' == *start)
 				start++;
 
-			mpage->desc = mandoc_strdup(start);
+			/*
+			 * Cut off excessive one-line descriptions.
+			 * Bad pages are not worth better heuristics.
+			 */
+
+			mpage->desc = mandoc_strndup(start, 150);
 			free(title);
 			return;
 		}
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