"truss man" doesn't show *anything*

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:59:11AM -0400, Steve Coile wrote:
> I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
> When I try to read the pages with "man -M <path> <page>", I'm told the
> manual page doesn't exist.  When I use "truss man -M <path> <page>",
> truss generates *NO* output.  Is that normal?

man(1) is a SUID executable:

    % ls -la /usr/bin/man 
    -r-sr-xr-x  1 man  wheel  29752 May 23 21:59 /usr/bin/man*

Hence truss(1) and other process tracing software like gdb(1) will
refuse to show you it's inner workings on the grounds of system
security.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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