From: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
To: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 22:16:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804221603.0d48ad17.ddiss@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803115819.17110-1-ailiop@suse.com>
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 13:58:19 +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> Some implementations of man(1) do not support the long option --path to
> display the actual location of a man page, which can cause these tests
> to fail on systems using alternative man packages, such as mandoc.
>
> Switch to using the more standard -w flag across these tests to improve
> portability while maintaining the same behavior
The mandoc man.options.1 page seems to do a pretty good job of
tracking where the various flags appear across man utils.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 11:58 [PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability Anthony Iliopoulos
2026-08-04 12:16 ` David Disseldorp [this message]
2026-08-10 21:31 ` Zorro Lang
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