On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:39:14AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CW> I'm sure I've asked you this before, but once again: please stop filing > CW> bugs against man-db about warning messages on individual manual pages. > > Ah no wonder: > > CW> man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low > CW> - Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager, > CW> to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: > #372939). > > Who would have guessed man now does such discarding. No wonder I > thought it was a man problem. Who knows how many other warnings one > misses because of this. Unix's stderr is there for a reason!
Its purpose is not to splurge all over the pager and make manual pages unreadable. > Is there a way for the user to turn stderr back on? >/dev/null > If I don't like them I will use 2>/dev/null. You weren't the one getting the bug reports. > How is one to know one is reading a damaged man page or not if you > throw away errors? What if the user follows damaged instructions on a > damaged man page and ends up damaging his system? This is starting to > sound like a story from RISKS Digest. Oh, for goodness' sake. Perspective anyone? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
