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Re: fixing up /usr/doc



On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 09:34:55AM -0500, Zack Brown wrote:
> /usr/doc is virtually unusable because of the many bogus entries it has. The
> directory listing takes a long time to even start to display,

This time is not long ;-)  One day I installed Wine's manpages.
After that my /usr/man/man3 has the size of 100k (directory itself,
not its contents).  It was read _really_ slow!  
IMHO, it's a kernel's problem to handle big directories better.

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