Bug #168

SUN_PERSONALITY env variable breaks man

Added by Ryan W about 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:New Start:December 06, 2011
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Description

problem parsing wiki text: Malformed tag at character 356: " export SUN_PERSONALITY=1;man zpool
Reformatting zpool(1m), please wait...
Not supported ISO-8859-1 to 646
unset SUN_PERSONALITY
man zpool
Reformatting zpool(1m), please wait...
zpool(1M)                                   System Administration Commands                                  zpool(1M)

NAME
       zpool - configures ZFS storage pools

SYNOPSIS
       zpool [-?]

       zpool add [-fn] pool vdev ...

History

Updated by Pavel Strashkin about 1 year ago

SUN_PERSONALITY switches binaries between GNU/SUN version so it's expected that something may not work just because of difference in an implementation. For an example SUN version of kill doesn't support SIGHUP signal while GNU version does.

Updated by Ryan W about 1 year ago

Pavel Strashkin wrote:

SUN_PERSONALITY switches binaries between GNU/SUN version so it's expected that something may not work just because of difference in an implementation. For an example SUN version of kill doesn't support SIGHUP signal while GNU version does.

But to break something as fundamental as man.. is just wrong. It's not that we're switching from GNU man to SUN man.. it's breaking a charset or something.

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