Bug 223529

Summary:	makewhatis ignores read permission errors on directories
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	grahamperrin
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	275968

Description Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer

2017-11-08 12:18:06 UTC

I run makewhatis on a man directory without read permissions. It ignored the error and reported a successful error status 0.

How to repeat:

$ mkdir man man/man1
$ cp /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz man/man1
$ chmod u-r man
$ makewhatis man
$ echo $?

On FreeBSD 10 the result is as expected:

makewhatis: man: Permission denied
1