Hello Alex, On 03/24/2017 06:45 PM, Alexander Miller wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:40:19 +0100 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> I've applied this. However, could you say more about the >> problem it fixes? (I did not encounter or get any reports of >> problems before, and at least for me, man(1) seems to have >> no problem with the files as they were.) > > Hello Michael, > > this is a problem with the older man implementation (man 1.6g) > and compressed man pages (man-db is not affected). > There is no zsoelim(1) in this implementation. Instead, man(1) > has special code to handle redirections which recognizes .so only > in the very first line. With uncompressed man pages it doesn't > matter because groff finds the target page, but when that file > is compresses groff can't find it and the result is an empty > page. > > I know that the older man is mostly irrelevant today (and I have > only one installation left for testing), but the fix is trivial, > so I decided to submit it. There may also be other tools with > similar restrictions, although I don't have any examples. Okay. Thanks for the explanation (and the fix)! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
