On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

Andreas Radke wrote:

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next minor upstream release. please signoff.

-Andy

Signoff i686.

OMG I broke it! dmcgee@galway ~ $ man geteuid32 | cat <standard input>:2: can't open `man2/getuid.2': No such file or directory Probably not the biggest deal in the world, but it looks like compression is doing something weird with the way these links work. Any ideas on fixing? -Dan

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Andreas Radke wrote:

[andyrtr@laptop64 ~]$ locate geteuid /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/auto/POSIX/geteuid.al /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid.2.gz /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid32.2.gz /usr/share/man/man3p/geteuid.3p.gz /usr/share/ri/1.8/system/Process/Sys/geteuid-c.yaml

your command is broken in all man-pages versions since 3.00 - are you sure anything else but "man geteuid"(works here) is wanted and needed?

Probably not, but this issue is quite weird, there are many others *32 man pages that are just simple links, and they all work fine. $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid32.2.gz .so man2/geteuid.2 $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/getgid32.2.gz .so man2/getgid.2 $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/getgroups32.2.gz .so man2/getgroups.2 ... Yet, only geteuid32 is broken. Very weird.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Dan McGee wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Xavier wrote:

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Andreas Radke wrote:

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[andyrtr@laptop64 ~]$ locate geteuid /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/auto/POSIX/geteuid.al /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid.2.gz /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid32.2.gz /usr/share/man/man3p/geteuid.3p.gz /usr/share/ri/1.8/system/Process/Sys/geteuid-c.yaml

your command is broken in all man-pages versions since 3.00 - are you sure anything else but "man geteuid"(works here) is wanted and needed?

I chose this one randomly and it happened to blow up on me, so sorry for the lucky smoke test. :)

Not so much needed as "if we install something, it shouldn't be broken". But with Xavier's comment below about them not all being broken...

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Probably not, but this issue is quite weird, there are many others *32 man pages that are just simple links, and they all work fine. $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/geteuid32.2.gz .so man2/geteuid.2 $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/getgid32.2.gz .so man2/getgid.2 $ zcat /usr/share/man/man2/getgroups32.2.gz .so man2/getgroups.2 ...

Yet, only geteuid32 is broken. Very weird.

That is quite odd. What is different about this one that it fails to link correctly?

Oh I am so stupid, I finally found what the difference is. It breaks when we have more than 1-level symlink. lstat64 -> lstat -> stat geteuid32 -> geteuid -> getuid Now it doesn't look so odd anymore, good :) And thanks, you just gave me another argument for pushing for man-db : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130 It works perfectly fine with man-db. What's up with a tool for reading man pages that does not even support their compression? Sounds unbelievable.