If arguments are passed to mandocdb(8) in "default" mode, then use

realpath() to convert them into absolute paths before putting the
traversed subdirectory filenames into the index.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mandocdb.c b/mandocdb.c
index e3362b84..26d1c1ce 100644
--- a/mandocdb.c
+++ b/mandocdb.c
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	struct manpaths	 dirs;
 	enum op		 op; /* current operation */
 	const char	*dir;
-	char		 ibuf[MAXPATHLEN], /* index fname */
+	char		*cp;
+	char		 pbuf[PATH_MAX],
+			 ibuf[MAXPATHLEN], /* index fname */
 			 fbuf[MAXPATHLEN];  /* btree fname */
 	int		 ch, i, flags;
 	DB		*idx, /* index database */
@@ -413,10 +415,15 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	 */
 
 	if (argc > 0) {
-		dirs.paths = mandoc_malloc(argc * sizeof(char *));
+		dirs.paths = mandoc_calloc(argc, sizeof(char *));
 		dirs.sz = argc;
-		for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
-			dirs.paths[i] = mandoc_strdup(argv[i]);
+		for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+			if (NULL == (cp = realpath(argv[i], pbuf))) {
+				perror(argv[i]);
+				goto out;
+			}
+			dirs.paths[i] = mandoc_strdup(cp);
+		}
 	} else
 		manpath_parse(&dirs, NULL, NULL);