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+++ b/makewhatis.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: makewhatis.8,v 1.5 2017/03/18 19:51:19 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: makewhatis.8,v 1.6 2017/05/17 22:27:12 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 18 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 17 2017 $
.Dt MAKEWHATIS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ and
.Sm on
in that directory.
Existing databases are replaced.
+If a directory contains no manual pages, no database is created in that
+directory.
If
.Ar dir
is not provided,
@@ -130,6 +132,7 @@ Remove
.Ar
from the database in
.Ar dir .
+If that causes the database to become empty, also delete the database file.
.El
.Pp
If fatal parse errors are encountered while parsing, the offending file