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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: man-db-devel@nongnu.org, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: man -K finds repeated entries for each symlink page
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2023 15:55:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDLR5SrIPXstHgBM@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a93419ac-b06a-41d3-7c82-339f1773ee76@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 09, 2023 at 03:58:28PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> $ man -Kaw RLIMIT_NOFILE | sort | uniq -c
>       3 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/dup.2
>       2 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/fcntl.2
>       5 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2
>       3 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/open.2
>       1 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/pidfd_getfd.2
>       1 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/pidfd_open.2
>       2 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/poll.2
>       1 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/seccomp_unotify.2
>       4 /opt/local/man/share/man/man2/select.2
> 
> Those numbers coincide with 1+ the number of symlinks for each of the
> pages.  For example, see select.2:

Thanks for the report.  Fixed by this commit:

  https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/commit/7ef30573a7023eb78bf70a34edaa4e3906531993

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-09 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-09 13:58 man -K finds repeated entries for each symlink page Alejandro Colomar
2023-04-09 14:55 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2023-04-09 15:20   ` Poor performance of man -K for uncompressed pages (was: man -K finds repeated entries for each symlink page) Alejandro Colomar

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