From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 16 13:16:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A769337B400; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:16:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id B9EF010DE00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:16:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:16:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Robert Watson , Ruslan Ermilov , Joerg Wunsch , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <20020116131608.J26067@elvis.mu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Garance A Drosihn [020116 13:12] wrote: > (I am bcc:-ing this to cvs-committers and cvs-all, with the idea > that this discussion is also going on in freebsd-arch and thus we > could drop it from those two cvs lists...) > > At 3:00 PM -0500 1/16/02, Robert Watson wrote: > >I'm happy with the behavior being available and turned off by default, > >but personally my feeling is that the performance/correctness tradeoff > >leans towards correctness given the risk. And to be honest, people > >don't usually benchmark systems based on the time it takes to render > >a man page. :-) > > But it is one of those things that will make the system "seem slower" > to them, in day-to-day use. > > I think the security issue is a good enough reason to turn off the > current behavior of 'man', but I do wish there was some middle-ground > option which was between 'zero cat pages on disk' and 'automatically > generate all cat pages for all existing man pages'. > > In my case, I have about a dozen man pages that I reference a lot, and > a lot of man pages that I never reference. If something could keep > track of which pages were actually referenced a lot, then some system > daemon could generate cat-versions of just those man pages. > > I realize that's probably a large hammer to be invoking to solve such > a little nail of a problem, but I couldn't help but wonder if there > was some other way to handle this. If $HOME/.foo has proper permissions man should cache the pages there. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message