Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 21:59 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > The bottom line is that when there
> > are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want
> > to get the right thing.  Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either
> > package.
> 
> > man readdir
> Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this)
>  * readdir (3)
>    readdir (3am)
>    readdir (2)
>    readdir (3p)
> Man: What manual page do you want?
> Man: 
> 
> The bottom line is that it is much nicer to tell the user that he may
> have wanted to be more specific.

This is not stock behaviour, nor does Fedora carry such a patch.  As
this is a user-visible change to a core POSIX-mandated utility, I do not
believe such a patch should be included without broader support thereto.

--
Yaakov