man: yet another fixlet to "manpage link" code

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index a2f6e3ba5..ebed207d2 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename,
         }
 
         if (man) { /* man page, not cat page */
-                /* Test whether the man page is not a link to another one. */
+                /* Is this a link to another manpage? */
                 /* The link has the following on the first line: */
                 /* ".so another_man_page" */
+
                 struct stat sb;
                 char *line;
                 char *linkname, *p;
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename,
                  * ".so man7/path_resolution.7\n<junk>"
                  */
                 *strchrnul(line, '\n') = '\0';
-                linkname = p = skip_whitespace(&line[4]);
+                linkname = skip_whitespace(&line[4]);
 
                 /* If link has no slashes, we just replace man page name.
                  * If link has slashes (however many), we go back *once*.