Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> 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

Exactly! I also noticed that malloc_stats is NOT a man page; and man
even located it.

>
> 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.
Yeah, I hope people on the list can do me a favor.
>
> By the way, this is very interesting! *Keep digging!*

Thanks so much, Emanuel!

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Regards,
Hongxu Chen