Re: Accessibility of man pages

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 4/8/23 23:53, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Colin, did I do anything wrong to have this slowness in man(1) with
> uncompressed pages?  Also, it's finding some repeated lines; did we
> find a bug?
> 
> 
> $ man -Kaw RLIMIT_NOFILE
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man3/errno.3
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man3/getdtablesize.3
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man3/mq_open.3
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man3/sysconf.3
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/fcntl.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/fcntl.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/open.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/open.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/open.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/poll.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/poll.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/seccomp_unotify.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/pidfd_getfd.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/dup.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/dup.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/dup.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/pidfd_open.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man5/proc.5
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man5/proc.5
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man7/capabilities.7
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man7/fanotify.7
> /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man7/unix.7
> 
> $ grep -n RLIMIT_NOFILE /opt/local/man/expanded__/share/man/man2/select.2
> 412:.B RLIMIT_NOFILE

Ahh, it seems to be following symlinks as if they were actual pages.
But for some reason this only happens for uncompressed pages, and not
for .gz pages.  Bug here :)

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 

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