X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Q2sCoXcBdoNs1jCq 6uHEwhu3VQrh+8eddsJdkadlkM3LePhrJMB4PMWyjU1eGX5Ld5UF0pnqgKWP7IWe tfO5ZvwgAk81znWs0SQTBHSCmBp0uE50962ojZtd9Gm1WRBJxcSK2TpB16Y/Z7cA LD44S5+zCDk6xyqGNedgKxqPhRE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=D6i2HeSM0xz0POpLxddegh F6tPc=; b=i4yM7DcMd/5n+5XcRVYsnLGmGaGrOUbcD6mKKMqUld1r8240Ue7Zs5 7MjP7pIUH5yYgpkTsj+VWQByvDNbM2xXVrEYXohlnXI9VFHm+FniIYTgurMixCgt DigSauk0wUrhS2a1BsEsHOWtIPsDqj0T9I/1fsGZOCke6CrmUTAVk= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=windir, System32, 23012018, 23.01.2018 X-HELO: mailout04.t-online.de Subject: Re: mandb -p deleting "obsolete" Windows cat directories To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Message-ID: <8d992e55-9a19-9108-ef30-6e6ab700cea4@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:31:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Am 23.01.2018 um 02:49 schrieb Brian Inglis: > I was surprised when I looked at the log (attached, with lots of man directory > indexing stripped), that mandb -p decide to scan my C drive and perform the It probably wasn't actually scanning "the C drive" as such, but rather the neighboring directories of those listed in your $PATH to discover further worthy additions to $MANPATH. And since %windir% and %windir%\System32 are on the default Cygwin $PATH... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple