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On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: > Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and > time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, > owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic > man3 directory, which causes them to take precedence over 3p because > of this line in /etc/man_db.conf: > > SECTION 1 1p 8 2 3 3p 4 5 6 7 9 0p n > > This causes âman readdirâ to return the gawk page, not the POSIX page, > as the user almost certainly intended. > > To fix this, the man_db maintainer should add a 3am after 3p here, and > the gawk maintainer should install the pages into the man3am > directory. > > Alternately, 3p could move in front of 3, since itâs more specific. > (You could say that man3p subclasses man3.) Yaakov, how do we go about that? I'm open to all suggestions, including dropping gawk and man-db from the distro ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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