Re: umask has no man page?
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:57 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> [...]
> You might be able to find something out from 'man -d umask', and
> examining the resulting debugging output... it seems to indicate exactly
> what file it ends up using, and what path it takes in figuring out what
> file to use. Though the output is not exactly user-friendly, being
> intended for debug-time developer use.
>
> (The important thing is not the absence of a symbolic link, but the
> absence of anything at all by the name of umask.1 or umask.1.gz. If no
> such thing is present, then I have no clue how man is even finding a
> page to show you...)
Starting about line 120:
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--priv_drop_count = 0
searching in /usr/share/man/ja, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
Layout is GNU (1)
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/ja: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/ja: man1*
matched: /usr/share/man/ja/man1
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/ja/man1: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/ja/man1: umask.1*
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/ja: hit
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/ja: cat1*
Succeeded in opening /var/cache/man/ja/index.db O_RDONLY
found 2 names/extensions
multi key lookup (umask 2)
multi key lookup (umask 1)
ult_src: File /usr/share/man/ja/man1/builtins.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man/ja
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Then more searching, finding umask.2.gz in man/ja/man2 and man/man2
and doing some precedence calculation, then, around line 457,
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trying a db located file.
name: umask
sec. ext: 1
section: 1
comp. ext: gz
id: C
st_mtime 1339329350
pointer: builtins
filter: -
whatis:
builtins: relying on whatis refs is deprecated
Checking physical location: /usr/share/man/ja/man1/builtins.1.gz
ult_src: File /usr/share/man/ja/man1/builtins.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man/ja
found ultimate source file /usr/share/man/ja/man1/builtins.1.gz
found lang dir element ja
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and it proceeds to convert and format.
Heh. Inquiring minds wanted to know.
:)
(Thanks. I'll have to remember the -d option.)
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Joel Rees
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