Bug 3316

Summary: man2html enters infinite loop on terminfo.5
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: redhat-bugs2eran
Component: manAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description redhat-bugs2eran 1999-06-07 17:02:35 UTC
On a RH6 system,
% /usr/bin/man2html /usr/man/man5/terminfo.5
takes infinite time and infinite memory (or at least 128MB).
It displays a part of the document, then goes metaphysical.

All other manpages on the system are rendered correctly.
PolyglotMan (rman) handles that manpage correctly.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-06-07 22:33:59 UTC
I have verified this to be true on a test machine in the test lab with
a stock 6.0 install.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-06-16 23:09:59 UTC
applied patch from Andries.Brouwer and made new package for
rawhide.