Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> As I said earlier in the thread, this seems only to add complexity (for
> example making it hard to reuse `man` for other things, the reason I filed
> this issue originally) for no useful gain on modern machines (the delay
> when formatting even the longest man page is short).
What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP? What if you're on a
laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem? What if your disk is
failing and this command takes several seconds to complete? etc.
No different from any other command that interacts with the disc and is normally run synchronously.