Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 08:12:51PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Actually, I looked at this sort of things some years ago when I was sitting in front of a PPro (which was way outdated by that time), and even the largest manpage I could find in base didn't take more than 6 or 8 seconds to

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
Bruce Evans wrote: I've never seen a machine that actually runs catman. I remove the cat directories on all my machines to prevent any saving of cat pages. All FreeBSD cluster machines that I checked (just 3) have 0, 1 and 2 saved cat pages. This shows shows that catman isn't run on them

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alexey Dokuchaev da...@freebsd.org writes: This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board: http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bruce Evans b...@optusnet.com.au writes: I've never seen a machine that actually runs catman. I remove the cat directories on all my machines to prevent any saving of cat pages. All FreeBSD cluster machines that I checked (just 3) have 0, 1 and 2 saved cat pages. This shows shows that

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Alexey Dokuchaev da...@freebsd.org writes: This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board:

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Bruce Simpson
Brooks Davis wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Alexey Dokuchaev da...@freebsd.org writes: This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? Show me the fast CPU

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: Alexey Dokuchaev da...@freebsd.org writes: This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? Show me the fast

Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bruce Simpson b...@incunabulum.net writes: Also, why are people expecting to render man pages on an embedded platform anyway? You'd be surprised how often I type 'man pf.conf' on that box :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___

svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

2009-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
Author: brooks Date: Fri Jun 19 15:52:35 2009 New Revision: 194493 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194493 Log: When checking if we can write to a file, use access() instead of a manual permission check based on stat output. Also, get rid of the executability check since it is