This is a small refinement of my own to Marco Ricci's new mode
introduced by the previous commit. If Pageant is being run by a parent
process intending to make requests to it, then it's probably put a
pipe on Pageant's stdout, and will be reading from that pipe to
retrieve the environment setup commands. So it needs to know when it's
read enough.
Closing stdout immediately makes this as easy as possible, freeing the
parent process of the need to count lines of output (and also know how
many lines to expect): it can simply read until there's no more data.
This also means there's no need to make stdout line-buffered, of
course – the fclose will flush it anyway.
This new mode makes it easy to run Pageant as a "supervised" instance,
e.g. as part of a test harness for other programs interacting with an
SSH agent, which is the original use case. Because Pageant is then
running as a child process of the supervisor, the operating system
notifies the supervisor of the child's aliveness without resorting to
PIDs or socket addresses, both of which may principally run stale and/or
get recycled.
In most Halibut man pages I write, I have a standard convention of
referring to another man page by wrapping the page name in \cw and the
section number in \e, leaving the parentheses un-marked-up. Apparently
I forgot in this particular collection.
When I added the psusan man page, I noticed that they've all got
impenetrable names like 'man-pl.but' to fit within 8.3 naming. But
this source base hasn't had to worry about 8.3 naming conventions in a
long time, so I think I can safely rename all those files to ones
whose purpose is more obvious.