Re: [Man-db-devel] [PATCH v3] man(1): Do not roff non-mandoc pages

[Mihail Konev]

This also looks like a text/binary mode bug.

  bzip2 -c -d /usr/share/man/man1/bmake.1.gz | nroff

gives the

  NetBSD 5.1                      August 15, 2016
  NetBSD 5.1
  <many newlines here>

ending, which looks like it operated on text with '\r'-s
assuming a binary-only data (should be an ftell() result).

At least, this would be on Windows.
fopen(3) states that 'b' is ignored on POSIX systems.
So nroff cannot be mis-ftell()-ing.