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From: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: makewhatis ignores symbolic links.
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>Number:         167
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       makewhatis ignores symbolic links.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 21 15:30:10 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon May 15 23:16:25 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Diekhans
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
== Mark Diekhans (markd@grizzly.com)     ==
>Environment:

>Description:

makewhatis does not find manual pages that are symbolicly linked or pages in
directories that are symbolicly linked.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
*** makewhatis.orig	Fri Dec 23 22:10:34 1994
--- makewhatis	Fri Dec 23 22:08:18 1994
***************
*** 28,34 ****
      do
          if [ -d $subdir ]
          then
!             for f in `find $subdir -type f -print`
              do
  		suffix=`echo $f | sed -e 's/.*\\.//'`
  		if [ ".$suffix" = ".gz" ]; then
--- 28,34 ----
      do
          if [ -d $subdir ]
          then
!             for f in `find $subdir -follow -type fl -print`
              do
  		suffix=`echo $f | sed -e 's/.*\\.//'`
  		if [ ".$suffix" = ".gz" ]; then
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Mon May 15 23:16:25 PDT 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> claims that this bug has 
been fixed. 
>Unformatted:



