=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.21 --- mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8 2011/07/14 14:36:37 1.1 +++ mandoc/Attic/mandocdb.8 2014/03/17 08:34:00 1.21 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.1 2011/07/14 14:36:37 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.21 2014/03/17 08:34:00 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 14 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2014 $ .Dt MANDOCDB 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -22,146 +23,116 @@ .Nd index UNIX manuals .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Op Fl ruv -.Op Fl d Ar dir -.Ar +.Op Fl anvW +.Op Fl C Ar file +.Nm +.Op Fl anvW +.Ar dir ... +.Nm +.Op Fl nvW +.Fl d Ar dir +.Op Ar +.Nm +.Op Fl nvW +.Fl u Ar dir +.Op Ar +.Nm +.Fl t Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility extracts keywords from .Ux -manuals and indexes them for fast retrieval. -The arguments are as follows: -.Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl d Ar dir -The directory into which to write the keyword and index databases. -.It Ar -Read input from zero or more files in -.Xr mdoc 7 -or -.Xr man 7 -.Ux -manual format. -.It Fl r -Remove entries. -This will remove the index and keyword references. -If the record is not found, it is ignored. -.It Fl u -Update the record. -This will first remove the record (as in -.Fl r ) -then re-add it. -.It Fl v -Verbose output. -If specified once, prints the name of each indexed file. -If twice, prints keywords for each file. -.El +manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by +.Xr apropos 1 , +.Xr whatis 1 , +and +.Xr man 1 Ns 's +.Fl k +option. .Pp By default, .Nm -constructs a new -.Sx Index Database +creates a database in each +.Ar dir +using the files +.Sm off +.Sy man Ar section Li / +.Op Ar arch Li / +.Ar title . section +.Sm on and -.Sx Keyword Database -in the current working directory. -Existing databases are truncated. +.Sm off +.Sy cat Ar section Li / +.Op Ar arch Li / +.Ar title . Sy 0 +.Sm on +in that directory. +Existing databases are replaced. +If +.Ar dir +is not provided, +.Nm +uses the default paths stipulated by +.Xr manpath 1 , +or +.Xr man.conf 5 . .Pp -If fatal parse errors are encountered, the offending file is printed to -stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues with the next -input file. -.Ss Index Database -The index database, -.Pa mandoc.index , -is a -.Xr recno 3 -database with record values consisting of -.Pp -.Bl -enum -compact -.It -a nil-terminated filename, -.It -a nil-terminated manual section, -.It -a nil-terminated manual title, -.It -a nil-terminated architecture -.Pq this is not often available -.It -and a nil-terminated description. +The arguments are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width "-C file" +.It Fl a +Use all directories and files found below +.Ar dir ... . +.It Fl C Ar file +Specify an alternative configuration +.Ar file +in +.Xr man.conf 5 +format. +.It Fl d Ar dir +Merge (remove and re-add) +.Ar +to the database in +.Ar dir . +.It Fl n +Do not create or modify any database; +scan and parse only. +.It Fl t Ar +Check the given +.Ar files +for potential problems. +Implies +.Fl a , +.Fl n , +and +.Fl W . +All diagnostic messages are printed to the standard output; +the standard error output is not used. +.It Fl u Ar dir +Remove +.Ar +from the database in +.Ar dir . +.It Fl v +Display all files added or removed to the index. +.It Fl W +Print warnings about potential problems with manual pages +to the standard error output. .El .Pp -Both the manual section and description may be zero-length. -Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered. -.Ss Keyword Database -The keyword database, -.Pa mandoc.db , -is a -.Xr btree 3 -database of nil-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string -length plus one) mapping to a 8-byte binary field consisting of the -keyword type and source -.Sx Index Database -record number. -The type, a 32-bit bit-mask in host order, consists of the following -fields: -.Pp -.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact -.It Li 0x01 -The name of a manual page as given in the NAME section. -.It Li 0x02 -A function prototype name as given in the SYNOPSIS section. -.It Li 0x04 -A utility name as given in the SYNOPSIS section. -.It Li 0x08 -An include file as given in the SYNOPSIS section. -.It Li 0x10 -A variable name as given in the SYNOPSIS section. -.It Li 0x20 -A standard as given in the STANDARDS section. -.It Li 0x40 -An author as given in the AUTHORS section. -.It Li 0x80 -A configuration as given in the SYNOPSIS section. -.It Li 0x100 -Free-form descriptive text as given in the NAME section. -.It Li 0x200 -Cross-links between manuals. -Listed as the link name, then a period, then the link section. -If the link has no section, the period terminates the string. -.It Li 0x400 -Path reference as given in the FILES section. -.It Li 0x800 -Environment variable as given in the ENVIRONMENT section. -.It Li 0x1000 -Error codes as given in the ERRORS section. -.El -.Pp -The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the -.Sx Index Database . -.Pp -The -.Nm -utility is -.Ud -.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES -The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the -number of keywords in the input. -However, removing or updating entries with -.Fl r -or -.Fl u , -respectively, grows as a multiple of the index length and input size. +If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file +is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues +with the next input file. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Pa mandoc.db -A -.Xr btree 3 -keyword database mapping keywords to a type and file reference in -.Pa mandoc.index . -.It Pa mandoc.index -A -.Xr recno 3 -database of indexed file-names. +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 /etc/man.conf +The default +.Xr man 1 +configuration file. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS The @@ -180,12 +151,49 @@ 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 SEE ALSO -.Xr mandoc 1 -.Sh AUTHORS +.Xr apropos 1 , +.Xr man 1 , +.Xr whatis 1 , +.Xr man.conf 5 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm makewhatis +utility first appeared in +.Bx 2 . +It was rewritten in +.Xr perl 1 +for +.Ox 2.7 +and in C for +.Ox 5.1 . +.Pp The +.Ar dir +argument first appeared in +.Nx 1.0 ; +the options +.Fl dtu +in +.Ox 2.7 ; +and the options +.Fl aCvW +in +.Ox 5.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.An Bill Joy +wrote the original +.Bx +.Nm makewhatis +in February 1979, +.An Marc Espie +started the Perl version in 2000, +and the current version of .Nm -utility was written by -.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv . +was written by +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv +and +.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .