Bug 15531 – man /bin/false prints sth. like ELF.......... funny, isn't it? ;)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2003-02-11 19:42:20 UTC]

The output is shown like a normal manpage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
man /bin/false [ENTER]
Actual Results:  
ELF............................4%4  (4

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2003-02-11 19:42:20 UTC]

The output is shown like a normal manpage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
man /bin/false [ENTER]
Actual Results:  
ELF............................4%4  (4ÀÀô...............   ......  ....è
èèÈ./lib/ld-linux.so.2........GNU!
                                                                               
        .....,]$.....*"-.....3ÓG
B.......FãP3¥%"@Ï........Hv.............Ã`ñ2Ìk.."J....ôf0]yÅCD:................ÝO......
libc.so.6stdout__fpending__ctype_bgetenv__cxa_finalize__overflowmbrtowcmallocabortiswprintcalloc__ctype_get_mb_cur_maxfprintf
fputs_unlockeddcgettext__deregister_frame_inforeallocmemsetfclosesetlocaleerror__errno_locationbindtextdomain_IO_stdin_used__
libc_start_main__register_frame_infombsinit__cxa_atexit__gmon_start__GLIBC_2.1.3GLIBC_2.1GLIBC_2.0GLIBC_2.2..................
..si      ^.......iij.....iit.....ii~.....<²


Expected Results:  
no manpage for /bin/false

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-02-11 20:31:21 UTC]

i dont see the bug ... if you give `man` the full path to a file, it'll read that as the 
manpage ... 
 
if you want `man false`, then type `man false`