Personally, I _am_ a bit bothered by behavior that increases the memory footprint. Consider virtualization: one may well want to run virtual machines with as little memory as they strictly need, since that's very easily adjustible, and since the less each guest uses, the more remains for other guests (or the host).
Also, what about minimized distros for appliances, lights-out management processors, and such? Hardly a good use of memory there, IMO. Nevertheless, I have a suggestion for keeping man cmd and cmd --man in sync. The man command already knows about nroff and sgml source; why not make it also able to be aware of self-documenting commands, so that running man cmd for such a command actually causes man to run cmd --man (or cmd --nroff or whatever variation is available and appropriate). This would mean modifying one command (man) to extend its capabilities, rather than modifying many commands with --man options (to reduce capabilities). However, if that were done, the content should presumably have an ATTRIBUTES section added. So there would still be some changes to be made. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
