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Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p


Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> The bottom line is that when there
> are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want
> to get the right thing.  Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either
> package.

> man readdir
Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this)
 * readdir (3)
   readdir (3am)
   readdir (2)
   readdir (3p)
Man: What manual page do you want?
Man: 

The bottom line is that it is much nicer to tell the user that he may
have wanted to be more specific.


Regards,
Achim.
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