Re: man incredibly slow because it scans for share directory in PATH??

ws/Cygwin creating MANPATH from PATH makes no sense! (although I now get the idea what was the rationell!) Reasonably setting MANPATH should IMHO be a default... BR Till Am 6/12/2016 um 12:49 PM schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Riedel,Till (TM)! I traced down my problem with really slow man p

man incredibly slow because it scans for share directory in PATH??

Hi, I traced down my problem with really slow man page views this: {{{ >PATH="/usr/bin:/foo" strace man bar |grep 'foo/share' }}} I am getting this: {{{ 13 39756 [main] man 6688 normalize_posix_path: src /foo/share/man 16 39772 [main] man 6688 normalize_posix_path: /foo/share/man