Package: manpages-dev Version: 4.10-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
it seems to be a gotcha having stat(x, y) unexpectedly return -1 when x is a broken link. The stat(1) command works where stat(2) fails. The obvious solution is to use lstat. It is difficult to fix this without ineffectually lengthening the text. Perhaps, using the concept of unlinked file, which is valid for hard and soft links alike, might help. For example, the man page says: ENOENT A component of pathname does not exist, or pathname is an empty string. Alternatively, it could say: ENOENT A component of pathname is unlinked (does not exist), or pathname is an empty string. Besides, the 1st paragraph in the NOTES section says "AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT fag". Please substitute "AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag" lest someone smokes their unmounted devices... Thanks for maintaining man pages Ale -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 4.10-2 manpages-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: ii jed-extra [man-browser] 2.5.7-2 ii man-db [man-browser] 2.7.6.1-2
