tags 259338 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:16:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:17:37AM -0400, A Costa wrote:
> > 'apropos' allows multiple keywords. It ORs them. So 'apropops n1 n2'
> > finds strings with 'n1' OR 'n2'. Redundantly, it turns out.
> [...]
> > I suspect that as 'apropos' checks its keywords, it just adds on
> > results of each search. A test of this:
>
> Yup. apropos is pretty stupid internally: it just prints stuff out as it
> finds it. At the same time, I don't want to stop it printing stuff out
> as it goes, because that's a useful feedback mechanism that it's doing
> something on slower computers or when network mounts are involved or
> similar kinds of situations. Maybe I should make it add matches to a
> hashtable internally, thereby brute-force uniquifying them.
I've now done this, so this fix will be in man-db 2.5.0.
Wed Aug 29 09:26:23 BST 2007 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/whatis.c (apropos): Add output keys to a hashtable, and skip
any that have already been seen (Debian bug #259338).
(main): Create the hashtable on startup and free it on exit.
Thanks,
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