Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:41:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A patch to man to handle "man.1"... Message-ID: <3F19E525.7020509@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <87vftyoy91.fsf@inf.enst.fr> References: <3F19C78A.7030008@mac.com> <20030719233535.GF77396@sunbay.com> <3F19D8D3.1040401@mac.com> <87vftyoy91.fsf@inf.enst.fr>
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Samuel Tardieu wrote: [ ... ] > It works only by chance. If ld-elf.so.1 was in section 2 for example, > your patch would prevent it from being found as the section is forced > to 1. Well, I don't want to discriminate against manpages named foo.1 in section 2, certainly. :-) On the other hand, I would argue that if the actual file is named /usr/share/man/man2/foo.1.2, having "man foo.1.2" work is not such a bad thing. I won't disagree if you claim that "man foo.1" should continue to work as before, however, even if it does seem ambiguous what should happen if there was also a "foo" manpage in section 1. -- -Chuck
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