[2427] in Athena Bugs
(RT/PC) bad protection and man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 20 09:47:45 1989
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 09:47:28 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-ls@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, consult@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
System type, version: (RT/PC) Version 6.3A
System name: soup
What's wrong:
I have consult in my manpath. When I did man ls, I got this:
**=> (primary) soup:/afs/athena.mit.edu/mit/qjb <=**
% man ls
cat1/ls.1: Permission denied
**=> (primary) soup:/afs/athena.mit.edu/mit/qjb <=**
%
Why this is going to consult/vanharen:
**=> (primary) soup:/afs/athena.mit.edu/mit/qjb <=**
% l /mit/consult/man/cat1/ls.1
-rw------- 1 369 mit 7188 Jun 6 03:35 /mit/consult/man/cat1/ls.1
Why this is going to bugs:
man (the program, not the species) should be smart enough to
keep looking and not to exit because of a protection error. I
may send a patch.
Most people would not know to do more /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.
What should have happened:
man should keep searching. (How's that for profound?) In
addition, the error message should not just say cat1/ls.1:
Permission denied but
/mit/consult/man/cat1/ls.1: Permission denined if it is going to
give an error. The first required a manual search (no pun
intended) through the directories in my MANPATH.
