On 09Mar2014 21:41, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > being that no one asked, i will. > why would someone send a man page to a null device? > to a printer, file, another terminal, yes. /dev/null, never. The same reason one might send anything to /dev/null; to execise the command without keeping the output. Test frameworks, etc etc. > because intent of 'man' is not to send output to /dev/null, > why should it written to do so? It should have a sensible default when it doesn't know the output width by inspection. For example, when piped to something else. > such is not intent of 'man', therefore, i would not consider > doing such as a bug. other than person doing so. ;-) The only way to support a default width but still have it break on /dev/null (as you seem to want it to) is to special case /dev/null and detect it specificly, and perform badly in that special occasion. That seems insane. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> Your modesty is typically human, so I will overlook it. - a Klingon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
