-.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.7 2011/11/26 11:23:56 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandocdb.8,v 1.25 2014/04/04 02:31:07 schwarze Exp $
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-.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 26 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 4 2014 $
.Dt MANDOCDB 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nd index UNIX manuals
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl av
-.Op Ar dir...
+.Op Fl aDnpQ
+.Op Fl T Cm utf8
+.Op Fl C Ar file
.Nm
-.Op Fl v
+.Op Fl aDnpQ
+.Op Fl T Cm utf8
+.Ar dir ...
+.Nm
+.Op Fl DnpQ
+.Op Fl T Cm utf8
.Fl d Ar dir
.Op Ar
.Nm
-.Op Fl v
+.Op Fl Dnp
+.Op Fl T Cm utf8
.Fl u Ar dir
.Op Ar
+.Nm
+.Op Fl Q
+.Fl t Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility extracts keywords from
.Ux
-manuals and indexes them in a
-.Sx Keyword Database
+manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by
+.Xr apropos 1 ,
+.Xr whatis 1 ,
and
-.Sx Index Database
-for fast retrieval.
+.Xr man 1 Ns 's
+.Fl k
+option.
.Pp
-The arguments are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Fl a
-Use all directories and files found below
-.Ar dir ... .
-By default, only files matching
+By default,
+.Nm
+creates a database in each
+.Ar dir
+using the files
.Sm off
.Sy man Ar section Li /
.Op Ar arch Li /
.Ar title . section
.Sm on
-will be used.
+and
+.Sm off
+.Sy cat Ar section Li /
+.Op Ar arch Li /
+.Ar title . Sy 0
+.Sm on
+in that directory.
+Existing databases are replaced.
+If
+.Ar dir
+is not provided,
+.Nm
+uses the default paths stipulated by
+.Xr manpath 1 ,
+or
+.Xr man.conf 5 .
+.Pp
+The arguments are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width "-C file"
+.It Fl a
+Use all directories and files found below
+.Ar dir ... .
+.It Fl C Ar file
+Specify an alternative configuration
+.Ar file
+in
+.Xr man.conf 5
+format.
+.It Fl D
+Display all files added or removed to the index.
+With a second
+.Fl D ,
+also show all keyswords added for each file.
.It Fl d Ar dir
Merge (remove and re-add)
.Ar
-from the databases in
+to the database in
.Ar dir .
+.It Fl n
+Do not create or modify any database; scan and parse only,
+and print manual page names and descriptions to standard output.
+.It Fl p
+Print warnings about potential problems with manual pages
+to the standard error output.
+.It Fl Q
+Quickly build reduced-size databases
+by reading only the NAME sections of manuals.
+The resulting databases will usually contain names and descriptions only.
+.It Fl T Cm utf8
+Use UTF-8 encoding instead of ASCII for strings stored in the databases.
+.It Fl t Ar
+Check the given
+.Ar files
+for potential problems.
+Implies
+.Fl a ,
+.Fl n ,
+and
+.Fl p .
+All diagnostic messages are printed to the standard output;
+the standard error output is not used.
.It Fl u Ar dir
Remove
.Ar
-from the databases in
+from the database in
.Ar dir .
-.It Ar dir...
-Recursively add files rooted at each
-.Ar dir
-to the databases in the respective
-.Ar dir .
-Existing databases are truncated.
-.It Fl v
-Verbose operation.
-Use once to display all files added or removed and twice for keywords as
-well.
.El
.Pp
-By default,
-.Nm
-creates databases in each
-.Ar dir
-using files rooted in that directory.
-If
-.Ar dir
-is not provided,
-.Nm
-uses the default paths stipulated by
-.Xr man 1 .
-.Pp
If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file
is printed to stderr, omitted from the index, and the parse continues
with the next input file.
-.Ss Index Database
-The index database,
-.Pa mandoc.index ,
-is a
-.Xr recno 3
-database with record values consisting of
-.Pp
-.Bl -enum -compact
-.It
-a nil-terminated filename,
-.It
-a nil-terminated manual section,
-.It
-a nil-terminated manual title,
-.It
-a nil-terminated architecture
-.Pq this is not often available
-.It
-and a nil-terminated description.
-.El
-.Pp
-Both the manual section and description may be zero-length if the record
-is unassigned.
-Entries are sequentially-numbered, but the filenames are unordered.
-.Ss Keyword Database
-The keyword database,
-.Pa mandoc.db ,
-is a
-.Xr btree 3
-database of nil-terminated keywords (record length is non-zero string
-length plus one) mapping to a 8-byte binary field consisting of the
-keyword type and source
-.Sx Index Database
-record number.
-The type, a 32-bit bit-mask in host order, consists of the following
-fields:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
-.It Li 0x01
-The name of a manual page as given in the NAME section.
-.It Li 0x02
-A function prototype name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x04
-A utility name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x08
-An include file as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x10
-A variable name as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x20
-A standard as given in the STANDARDS section.
-.It Li 0x40
-An author as given in the AUTHORS section.
-.It Li 0x80
-A configuration as given in the SYNOPSIS section.
-.It Li 0x100
-Free-form descriptive text as given in the NAME section.
-.It Li 0x200
-Cross-links between manuals.
-Listed as the link name, then a period, then the link section.
-If the link has no section, the period terminates the string.
-.It Li 0x400
-Path reference as given in the FILES section.
-.It Li 0x800
-Environment variable as given in the ENVIRONMENT section.
-.It Li 0x1000
-Error codes as given in the ERRORS section.
-.El
-.Pp
-The last four bytes are a host-ordered record number within the
-.Sx Index Database .
-.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-utility is
-.Ud
-.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
-The time to construct a new database pair grows linearly with the
-number of keywords in the input files.
-However, removing or updating entries with
-.Fl u
-or
-.Fl d ,
-respectively, grows as a multiple of the index length and input size.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Pa mandoc.db
-A
-.Xr btree 3
-keyword database mapping keywords to a type and file reference in
-.Pa mandoc.index .
-.It Pa mandoc.index
-A
-.Xr recno 3
-database of indexed file-names.
+A database of manpages relative to the directory of the file.
+This file is portable across architectures and systems, so long as the
+manpage hierarchy it indexes does not change.
+.It Pa /etc/man.conf
+The default
+.Xr man 1
+configuration file.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
Such errors cause
.Nm
to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
-The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
+The output databases are corrupt and should be removed.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,
-.Xr mandoc 1 ,
-.Xr btree 3 ,
-.Xr recno 3
-.Sh AUTHORS
+.Xr whatis 1 ,
+.Xr man.conf 5
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm makewhatis
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 2 .
+It was rewritten in
+.Xr perl 1
+for
+.Ox 2.7
+and in C for
+.Ox 5.6 .
+.Pp
The
+.Ar dir
+argument first appeared in
+.Nx 1.0 ;
+the options
+.Fl dpt
+in
+.Ox 2.7 ;
+the option
+.Fl u
+in
+.Ox 3.4 ;
+and the options
+.Fl aCDnQT
+in
+.Ox 5.6 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Bill Joy
+wrote the original
+.Bx
+.Nm makewhatis
+in February 1979,
+.An Marc Espie
+started the Perl version in 2000,
+and the current version of
.Nm
-utility was written by
-.An Kristaps Dzonsons ,
-.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
+was written by
+.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv
+and
+.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org .
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