Hello,
I propose to remove the message "man: Formatting manual page..." that we get
each time we call man.
I find it annoying. Surely I cannot be the only one? It is also an anti-pattern
for a UNIX program to emit such a useless message during normal operation. For
the large majority of users, manual page formatting is instantaneous. And for
those who run NetBSD on very slow hardware, I bet they don't need to be
reminded how man(1) works each time either.
diff --git i/usr.bin/man/man.c w/usr.bin/man/man.c
index 7d23e1d..0788bc6 100644
--- i/usr.bin/man/man.c
+++ w/usr.bin/man/man.c
@@ -749,19 +749,12 @@ fmtcheck_ok(const char *userfmt, const char *template)
static void
build_page(const char *fmt, char **pathp, struct manstate *mp)
{
- static int warned;
int olddir, fd, n;
size_t tmpdirlen;
char *p, *b;
char buf[MAXPATHLEN], cmd[MAXPATHLEN], tpath[MAXPATHLEN];
const char *tmpdir;
- /* Let the user know this may take awhile. */
- if (!warned) {
- warned = 1;
- warnx("Formatting manual page...");
- }
-
/*
* Historically man chdir'd to the root of the man tree.
* This was used in man pages that contained relative ".so"
--
Olivier Duclos
