Hi Karl!
Did this one get lost? Especially the question concerning
man Top
would be interesting ;-)
What do you say about the other observation?
Best wishes
Norbert
On Don, 16 Feb 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Karl!
>
> [my brains is twisted from following with gdb the course of info ...]
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> > However, messing around with gdb, I surmise that the man page was being
> > generated by this code at the end of info_get_node:
>
> > See if that works for you ... (it's in CVS now)
>
> Unfortunately not. BUt I believe that I found the reason:
>
> FIrst: What do you get when you make
> man Top
>
> Second: I believe that the man page is created in the line BEFORE the
> changed stuff, so here:
> /* Look for the node. */
> node = info_get_node_of_file_buffer (nodename, file_buffer);
>
> /* If the node not found was "Top", try again with different case,
> unless this was a man page. */
> if (!node
> && strcasecmp (filename, MANPAGE_FILE_BUFFER_NAME) != 0
> && (nodename == NULL || strcasecmp (nodename, "Top") == 0))
>
>
> in the
> node = info_get_node_of_file_buffer (nodename, file_buffer);
>
> nodename = NULL
> file_buffer is something strange
>
> from this we enter info_get_node_of_file_buffer where
> nodename = "Top"
> because it was NULL, and then
> get_manpage_node (file_buffer, "Top")
> is called.
>
> And I assume that this returns the manpage for Top, which is here on my
> system the same as man top.
>
> > (Is it just me, or is this code really hard to follow?)
>
> REALLY HARD!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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