Bug 558387

Summary:	Systemtap man pages override standard C man pages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	D. Wagner <daw-redhatbugzilla>
Component:	systemtap	Assignee:	Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	dsmith, fche, jistone, mjw, mjw, roland, wcohen
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Description D. Wagner 2010-01-25 05:15:36 UTC

Description of problem:

If systemtap is installed, its man pages override the standard C library man pages.  That's a poor default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

systemtap-1.1-1.fc12.x86_64
man-1.6f-22.fc12.x86_64
man-pages-3.22-6.fc12.noarch

How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install systemtap
2. Run "man strlen"
  
Actual results: You see a systemtap man page (/usr/share/man/man3/strlen.3stap.gz)

Expected results: One should see a standard C library man page (/usr/share/man/man3/strlen.3.gz)

This affects a few other man pages as well (e.g., strtol).

Comment 1 Mark Wielaard 2010-01-25 08:36:54 UTC

This is upstream bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11210
"3stap man pages colliding with 3"

Comment 2 William Cohen 2010-04-05 19:34:13 UTC

This is fixed in systemtap-1.2-1.fc12.

The following will now provide the systemtap strlen man page:

man function::strlen

List of all the strlen commands on the system:

whatis strlen
strlen               (3)  - calculate the length of a string
strlen               (3p)  - get string length
strlen               (3stap)  - Returns the length of a string
strlen               (9)  - Find the length of a string
strlen [string]      (3)  - string operations