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Synopsis: Trouble with LD_PRELOAD environment variable and man pages

State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
State-Changed-By: jdp
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 28 09:13:58 PST 1998
State-Changed-Why: 
Problem confirmed.  Any bogus value for LD_PRELOAD causes groff to
fail, leaving a compressed empty "formatted" version of the man
page in the "cat?" directory.  Subsequent invocations of man use the
bad file, because it has a newer timestamp than the unformatted copy.
The man command should take care to clean up the bad file if groff
fails.