Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 16:31:23 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages Message-ID: <p05101007b8416de8423a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011214101857.C35094@sunbay.com> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <p0510100bb83ddfa9e683@[128.113.24.47]> <20011214112255.L3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011214101857.C35094@sunbay.com>
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At 10:18 AM +0200 12/14/01, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > As regards the cat files, it seems to me that an obvious solution >> would be to add a CATMAN environment variable which would specify the > > location of the catman pages, and default to /usr/share/man/cat. > >Just having a CATMAN envariable is not enough, this would break many >things. There are hosts on which people use different locales >simultaneously. Look at how the usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1 is >organized nowadays, and realize why, while sharing the man? >directories with the .., it has its own cat? directories. Note that my suggestion does not use an environment variable. What I wanted was something that the system administrator could decide to use, and if the sysadmin did want this, then the decision would effect all users on the system. I do not consider environment variables a good way to set system-wide policies. My thought was that if the administrator did create these new directories under /var/man, then 'man' would always prefer to use those for cat pages. >The "cat" feature of man(1) is insecure, and is probably going to >be nuked after a release of 4.5. Well, if this expected to disappear soon, then that certainly reduces my eagerness to make any changes to it! :-) -- 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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