Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:09:37 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <p05101217b86b93b7e1cd@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020116145639.73036A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020116145639.73036A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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(I am bcc:-ing this to cvs-committers and cvs-all, with the idea that this discussion is also going on in freebsd-arch and thus we could drop it from those two cvs lists...) At 3:00 PM -0500 1/16/02, Robert Watson wrote: >I'm happy with the behavior being available and turned off by default, >but personally my feeling is that the performance/correctness tradeoff >leans towards correctness given the risk. And to be honest, people >don't usually benchmark systems based on the time it takes to render >a man page. :-) But it is one of those things that will make the system "seem slower" to them, in day-to-day use. I think the security issue is a good enough reason to turn off the current behavior of 'man', but I do wish there was some middle-ground option which was between 'zero cat pages on disk' and 'automatically generate all cat pages for all existing man pages'. In my case, I have about a dozen man pages that I reference a lot, and a lot of man pages that I never reference. If something could keep track of which pages were actually referenced a lot, then some system daemon could generate cat-versions of just those man pages. I realize that's probably a large hammer to be invoking to solve such a little nail of a problem, but I couldn't help but wonder if there was some other way to handle this. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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