From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 01:18:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506B337B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 01:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C7843F3F for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 01:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h4J8ILEd001742 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 19 May 2003 11:18:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h4J8IHfA001733; Mon, 19 May 2003 11:18:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:18:17 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Andy Farkas Message-ID: <20030519081817.GA1035@sunbay.com> References: <20030516124723.GE2047@sunbay.com> <20030519105349.S93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030519105349.S93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:18:44 -0000 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:01:00AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > 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). >=20 > 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. >=20 Not quite. When catpages are created by man(1), the user is displayed the text only after the whole catpage was created. This can take some considerable time on large manpages and slow machines. When catpages are not created, the user is displayed the text as soon as part of it becomes available =66rom the "/usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -man" command, subject to the ${PAGER} buffering. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+yJNJUkv4P6juNwoRAm/eAJ4rkto0rARvLTqHRbwTXgo939iHYgCfaoPu lKt93aTK9N8kEbvx0++QpZQ= =or69 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--