In fact, upon trying to do this in libpipeline, I've changed my mind: tolerating this situation there is far too fiddly and fragile. I've therefore decided to document this restriction instead, given that it's already fixed in man-db:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libpipeline.git/commit/?id=f42a4472eefe730d5fc17a16af202eb30ed78795 ** Changed in: libpipeline (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992271 Title: man command not working in lynxcgi script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpipeline/+bug/992271/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs