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Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:59:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p
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- References: <F3523FBF-36D9-4171-B189-092E08D9091B at etr-usa dot com> <20151023093829 dot GA24268 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <1445627888 dot 16064 dot 112 dot camel at cygwin dot com>
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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