Re: Symlinked manpages

[Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>]

> What is wrong with man that it cannot share preformatted manpages between
> symlinked source manpages?  Maybe it would be easier to fix man (sarcasm
> intended).

We then have to lstat() _every_ page, and readlink() it if there is a link,
when we build the index. I guess it wouldn't slow down the program too much,
but why bother?

	Bruce
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