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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:20:04 -0700
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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@fubar.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: gnu/397: man spews worthless information
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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: