[request-sponsor] 1224122 windex not created by install/upgrade
Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote: Interesting, does that imply if I go and remove ksh/ksh93 from the system I won't have a functioning manpage subsustem ? If you remove ksh93 from OpenSolaris you won't have a functioning system, period. How do you think all the scripts for most SMF services will be run, or anything that calls system(3C), now that /sbin/sh is a link to ksh93? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
[request-sponsor] 1224122 windex not created by install/upgrade
Mike Gerdts wrote: [CC:'ing Michelle Olson michelle.olson at sun.com as co-lead of the (yet-to-be-announched) manpage-subsystem-rewrite project] I'm looking for a sponsor for the following: 1224122 windex not created by install/upgrade 4858166 makewhatis should remove duplicate windex entries A working prototype prototype is at: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~mgerdts/windex-service/ Groan... ... for the log: I am currently _rewriting_ the manpage subsystem from scratch (the frontend already exists as http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/scripts/shman.ksh ; I'm now waiting for the ksh93-integration update1 to land before doing the remaining work). IMO it may be nice to syncronize the work a bit... Some notes: - IMO it may be nice to have something like /etc/man/mandirs which keeps track of directories which contain man directories and a tool (manadm ?) which adds/removes entries to that list and invokes the crawling process for all subdirs listed there. Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
[request-sponsor] 1224122 windex not created by install/upgrade
On Sun, 25 May 2008 04:24:44 +0200, Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org wrote: ... for the log: I am currently _rewriting_ the manpage subsystem from scratch (the frontend already exists as http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/scripts/shman.ksh ; I'm now waiting for the ksh93-integration update1 to land before doing the remaining work). IMO it may be nice to syncronize the work a Interesting, does that imply if I go and remove ksh/ksh93 from the system I won't have a functioning manpage subsustem ? thanks --- frankB
