Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:

> Just find another difference: WoMan might miss some man entry.
> For instance, man would find `malloc_stats' but WoMan fails. Is
> it because the search path not set right or the flaw of WoMan?
> I swear there is no sexism :-)

If you notice, that's not really a man page. There is an
association to the mallopt man page, which you can confirm with
`apropos malloc_stats' that shows

mallopt (3)          - set memory allocation parameters

Now, run `whereis mallopt`

mallopt: /usr/share/man/man3/mallopt.3.gz

If you open that file in Emacs (no decompress needed), make a
search for "malloc_stats". There are no hits! So, how that
association is setup beats me, and, as you discovered, it beats
WoMan to :)

But I'm sure someone on the list knows this.

By the way, this is very interesting! *Keep digging!*

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