FYI, still doesn't work on Slackware 7.1 $ man -S : blah No manual entry for blah $ $ man -S ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: blah blah: nothing appropriate $ I have tried the other command to try to get man to segfault with a supplied arguement, still nothing. $ man -S `perl -e 'print ":" x 100'` blah No manual entry for blah $ On Wed, 16 May 2001, Stephen Shirley wrote: > Hi, > The info posted to get man to seg fault is slightly incorrect. You > need to supply some text as the name of a man page - otherwise man will > reject all input. The number of :'s is irrelevat too - one is enough. > > man -S : blah > will cause a seg fault. This has been confirmed on debian 2.2 woody, and I > submitted a patch to fix it. The new version is in unstable - ver > 2.3.18-2. From the changelog of 2.3.18-2: > > * man would segfault if the argument to -S contained only colons, and > incidentally treated an empty argument to -S wrongly. Both cases now > use the standard list of sections instead (thanks, Colin Phipps and > Stephen Shirley; closes: #97553, #97566). > > Steve > -- > "My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad" > > > PJ -- My brain needs a new OS - it can't stay up for much longer than 24 hours without a reboot.
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