[PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability

[PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability

[Anthony Iliopoulos]

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, given that the --path
option is just an alias to -w in the standard man-db utility.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>
---
 tests/xfs/293 | 2 +-
 tests/xfs/505 | 2 +-
 tests/xfs/514 | 2 +-
 tests/xfs/515 | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/xfs/293 b/tests/xfs/293
index 3e887f1c40cf..9735c441ab32 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/293
+++ b/tests/xfs/293
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ _require_command "$MAN_PROG" man
 
 echo "Silence is golden"
 
-MANPAGE=`$MAN_PROG --path xfs_io`
+MANPAGE=`$MAN_PROG -w xfs_io`
 
 case "$MANPAGE" in
 *.gz|*.z\|*.Z)	CAT=zcat;;
diff --git a/tests/xfs/505 b/tests/xfs/505
index 81f53ffac23d..f0f435241dda 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/505
+++ b/tests/xfs/505
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ _require_command "$MAN_PROG" man
 
 echo "Silence is golden"
 
-MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG --path xfs_spaceman)
+MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG -w xfs_spaceman)
 
 case "$MANPAGE" in
 *.gz|*.z\|*.Z)	CAT=zcat;;
diff --git a/tests/xfs/514 b/tests/xfs/514
index d3641c3e1af6..215ae5e7cc5a 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/514
+++ b/tests/xfs/514
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ _require_test
 
 echo "Silence is golden"
 
-MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG --path xfs_db)
+MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG -w xfs_db)
 
 case "$MANPAGE" in
 *.gz|*.z\|*.Z)	CAT=zcat;;
diff --git a/tests/xfs/515 b/tests/xfs/515
index 7d6e99405972..0596457e5adc 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/515
+++ b/tests/xfs/515
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ _require_test
 
 echo "Silence is golden"
 
-MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG --path xfs_quota)
+MANPAGE=$($MAN_PROG -w xfs_quota)
 
 case "$MANPAGE" in
 *.gz|*.z\|*.Z)	CAT=zcat;;
-- 
2.49.0

Re: [PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability

[David Disseldorp]

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.