On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:36:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database > > (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. > > How did you determine this?
About two months ago, I wrote the code that is getting into a loop. ;) I knew it was that because of the various patterns of output he described. I also don't think it's possible for a broken man page to cause mandb to loop, although if you manage it I'd love to hear about it ... Besides, Eugene sent me the database in question, and I had a look at it with accessdb. -- Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
