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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2023-04-09 16:10:08 +0100
committerColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2023-04-09 16:10:08 +0100
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parent7ef30573a7023eb78bf70a34edaa4e3906531993 (diff)
mandb: Warn if not running as cache owner
Fixes https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/17. * src/mandb.c (main): If effective user ID doesn't match the configured cache owner (if any), and the `--quiet` option wasn't used, then issue a warning. * NEWS.md: Document this.
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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Improvements:
* Work around the Firebuild accelerator in `seccomp` sandbox: if this is in
use then we need to allow some socket-related system calls.
* `man -K` now deduplicates search results that point to the same page.
+ * Warn if `mandb` drops to `--user-db` mode due to running as the wrong
+ user.
man-db 2.11.2 (8 January 2023)
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