Brian Pomerantz writes:

I've noticed a bug in the "autowidth" feature more, and is probably in
others.  The call to the function get_terminal_width_height() passes
in a file descriptor but that file descriptor is never used, instead
the ioctl() is called with 0.  In more_main() the call to
get_terminal_width_height() passes 0 as the file descriptor instead of
fileno(cin).  This isn't a problem when you more a file (e.g. "more
/etc/passwd") but when you pipe a file to it (e.g. "cat /etc/passwd |
more") the size of the terminal cannot be determined because file
descriptor 0 is not a terminal.  The fix is simple, I've attached a
patch for more.c and get_terminal_width_height.c.


BAPper
diff --git a/coreutils/ls.c b/coreutils/ls.c
index f7fa9a1..8b5065a 100644
--- a/coreutils/ls.c
+++ b/coreutils/ls.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH
 	/* Obtain the terminal width.  */
-	get_terminal_width_height(0, &terminal_width, NULL);
+	get_terminal_width_height(fileno(stdout), &terminal_width, NULL);
 	/* Go one less... */
 	terminal_width--;
 #endif
diff --git a/libbb/get_terminal_width_height.c b/libbb/get_terminal_width_height.c
index ef90463..7a1af6d 100644
--- a/libbb/get_terminal_width_height.c
+++ b/libbb/get_terminal_width_height.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 {
 	struct winsize win = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
 #ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH
-	if (ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, &win) != 0) {
+	if (ioctl(fd, TIOCGWINSZ, &win) != 0) {
 		win.ws_row = 24;
 		win.ws_col = 80;
 	}
diff --git a/util-linux/more.c b/util-linux/more.c
index d7b7ce2..04b29de 100644
--- a/util-linux/more.c
+++ b/util-linux/more.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 	int please_display_more_prompt = -1;
 	struct stat st;
 	FILE *file;
+	FILE *in_file = stdin;
 	int len, page_height;
 
 	argc--;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@
 		cin = fopen(CURRENT_TTY, "r");
 		if (!cin)
 			cin = bb_xfopen(CONSOLE_DEV, "r");
+		in_file = cin;
 		please_display_more_prompt = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS
 		getTermSettings(fileno(cin), &initial_settings);
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@
 		if(please_display_more_prompt>0)
 			please_display_more_prompt = 0;
 
-		get_terminal_width_height(0, &terminal_width, &terminal_height);
+		get_terminal_width_height(fileno(in_file), &terminal_width, &terminal_height);
 		if (terminal_height > 4)
 			terminal_height -= 2;
 		if (terminal_width > 0)