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
