Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages...

From: Andy Farkas <andyf_at_speednet.com.au> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:01:00 +1000 (EST) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:08 UTC

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> >
> > As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
> > appears, whereas it does for root.
> >
> > IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.
> >
> For a normal user, man(1) no longer creates the catpages.
> This is still being revised (by me).

It still has to format the page. A user should be told this regardless if
she is the superuser or not. ATM, only root gets a message.

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