Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #4210

Timestamp:

02/05/2018 03:57:30 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

bdubbs@…

Comment:

man-db 2.8.0 (4 February 2018)

Major changes since man-db 2.7.6.1:

Fixes: ------

• Fix locale macro loading for Chinese to load the macro file corresponding to just the language part of the user's locale.

• Honour --enable-cache-owner in generated systemd tmpfiles snippet rather than hardcoding "man".

• If man adds prefixes to a page to handle such things as disabling hyphenation, then take account of those when looking for a preprocessor line at the start of the page.

• Fix a segfault in 'man -D --help'.

Improvements:

• Treat "\(en" as another synonym for "\-" in NAME sections.

• Confine most subprocesses that handle untrusted data using seccomp. This mainly deals with subprocesses that perform encoding conversions, (de)compressors, groff programs, and a few other odds and ends. groff programs use a slightly more permissive filter since they need to create temporary files, so additional path-based confinement (e.g. using AppArmor) is still useful.

If this goes wrong, then MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP=1 can be set in the environment to disable it, but please report any such problem as a bug.

• man now falls back to cat if the compile-time default pager is not executable.