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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-03-17 08:34:00 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-03-17 08:34:00 +0000
commit8e45c6fc98a82d70bc6a02c706b2b33194d29b2b (patch)
tree80cdcd297528a3ab3787afa7074bb462cfc8f1da /mandocdb.8
parent411db9009e20a1bef940842644da635f9c013d34 (diff)
downloadmandoc-8e45c6fc98a82d70bc6a02c706b2b33194d29b2b.tar.gz
minor sync to OpenBSD
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
.\" $Id$
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -46,7 +47,9 @@ manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
and
-.Xr man 1 .
+.Xr man 1 Ns 's
+.Fl k
+option.
.Pp
By default,
.Nm
@@ -126,11 +129,30 @@ with the next input file.
A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file.
This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the
manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change.
-.It Pa mandoc.db~
-A temporary database used during scanning and parsing.
+.It Pa /etc/man.conf
+The default
+.Xr man 1
+configuration file.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
-.Ex -std
+The
+.Nm
+utility exits with one of the following values:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
+.It 0
+No errors occurred.
+.It 5
+Invalid command line arguments were specified.
+No input files have been read.
+.It 6
+An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an
+error accessing input files.
+Such errors cause
+.Nm
+to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
+The output databases are corrupt and should be removed.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,