Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:20:04 -0700 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@fubar.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: gnu/397: man spews worthless information Message-ID: <199505120220.TAA24443@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 May 1995 22:18:26 -0400 <199505120218.WAA08811@fubar.cl.msu.edu>
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>Number: 397
>Category: gnu
>Synopsis: man spews worthless information
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 11 19:20:02 1995
>Originator: Charles Henrich
>Organization:
Michigan State University
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD 950412-SNAP
>Description:
Man as shipped with FreeBSD spews a message for each directory that
is in the manpath but not on disk (i.e.:
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/man!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/share/catman!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/catman!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/X11R6/man!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/X11R5/man!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/X11R5/man!
Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/AF/man!
A) no other man on the planet gives these warnings.
B) Because no other man on the planet gives these warnings lots of
folks just create a huge manpath that will work on all systems they
have a shared home directory on.
C) Because shared home directories are prevelent at Universities and
other large organizations these worthless messages should be
stomped.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run man with an "invalid" manpath.
>Fix:
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c
*** man.c Tue Apr 11 18:01:53 1995
--- man.new.c Thu May 11 22:10:47 1995
***************
*** 269,283 ****
status = is_directory (p);
! if (status < 0)
! {
! fprintf (stderr, "Warning: couldn't stat file %s!\n", p);
! }
! else if (status == 0)
! {
! fprintf (stderr, "Warning: %s isn't a directory!\n", p);
! }
! else if (status == 1)
{
if (debug)
fprintf (stderr, "adding %s to manpathlist\n", p);
--- 269,275 ----
status = is_directory (p);
! if (status == 1)
{
if (debug)
fprintf (stderr, "adding %s to manpathlist\n", p);
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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