Re: info -w is slow for man pages

[Hilmar Preuße]

Am 17.10.2022 um 22:45 teilte Gavin Smith mit:

Hi Gavin,

> An improvement would be to check the exit status of "man -a" and if
> not found, to fall back to loading the man page as usual.

I guess you rather want to check for exit status of "man -w", correct? 
This sounds like a reasonable idea to me.

Thanks for your help!

> $ uname -a
> SunOS login 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
> $ man -w foo
> usage:  man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ] [ -s section ] name ...
>          man [-M path] -k keyword ...
>          man [-M path] -f file ...
> $ echo $?
> 2
> $ man foo
> No manual entry for foo.
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $
>
> This would allow us to keep the performance improvement from using
> "man -a" (presumably Hilmar is using it for something and isn't just
> looking for problems for no reason).
Well, I'm just a got a issue report from a user and reported it to you.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021839

Hilmar
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