Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 15:32:45 -0700 From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What is wrong with man that it cannot share preformatted manpages between > symlinked source manpages? Maybe it would be easier to fix man (sarcasm > intended). [*understatement* intended, rather] We then have to lstat() _every_ page, and readlink() it if there is a link, when we build the index. I guess it wouldn't slow down the program too much, but why bother? I assumed it would be easier to fix man once than to get package maintainers to introduce the new files every time a new version is released by the upstream source. Easier yet would be to not worry about it, though I am guessing that the cost of the duplicate, compressed pages is significant. Matt Birkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
