Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed
 manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:42:45 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 08:36:31PM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 > > Hmmm, maybe I missunderstood the problem. Would mparse_result() return
 > > a "struct man *" full of binary data instead of failing if you pass
 > > it a ".gz" file?
 > >
 > 
 > Yes. The task of parsing is performed when mparse_readfd() is called,
 > which tries to parse even the compressed man page files and returns
 > binary data.
 
 Okay. I'll try to add decompression and see what happens.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/