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Diffstat (limited to 'mandocdb.8')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ manuals and indexes them in a .Sx Keyword Database and .Sx Index Database -for fast retrieval. +for fast retrieval by +.Xr apropos 1 , +.Xr whatis 1 , +and +.Xr man 1 Ns 's +.Fl k +option. .Pp By default, .Nm @@ -159,10 +165,11 @@ The keyword database, is a .Xr btree 3 database of NUL-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string -length plus one) mapping to a 12-byte binary field consisting of the -64-bit keyword type and 32-bit source +length plus one) mapping to a 16-byte binary field consisting of the +64-bit keyword type and the 64-bit .Sx Index Database record number, both in network-byte order. +.Pp The type bit-mask consists of the following values mapping into .Xr mdoc 7 @@ -208,9 +215,6 @@ macro identifiers: .It Li 0x0000001000000000ULL Ta \&Vt .It Li 0x0000002000000000ULL Ta \&Xr .El -.Pp -The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the -.Sx Index Database . .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the number of keywords in the input files. @@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ 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 . +The output databases are corrupt and should be removed. .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS If the following errors occur, the |