Re: [PATCH] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability

David Disseldorp <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <[email protected]>

On Mon,  3 Aug 2026 13:58:19 +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:

> Some implementations of man(1) do not support the long option --path to
> display the actual location of a man page, which can cause these tests
> to fail on systems using alternative man packages, such as mandoc.
> 
> Switch to using the more standard -w flag across these tests to improve
> portability while maintaining the same behavior

The mandoc man.options.1 page seems to do a pretty good job of
tracking where the various flags appear across man utils.
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