Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:01:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... Message-ID: <20030519105349.S93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030516124723.GE2047@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, 16 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> >
> > As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
> > appears, whereas it does for root.
> >
> > IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.
> >
> For a normal user, man(1) no longer creates the catpages.
> This is still being revised (by me).
It still has to format the page. A user should be told this regardless if
she is the superuser or not. ATM, only root gets a message.
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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