New submission from Andrew Parker:
On my Linux system the docs for fcntl.flock gives me "man 3 flock" for more
details:
$ pydoc3 fcntl.flock
Help on built-in function flock in fcntl:
fcntl.flock = flock(...)
flock(fd, operation)
Perform the lock operation op on file descriptor fd. See the Unix
manual page for flock(3) for details. (On some systems, this function
is
emulated using fcntl().)
However, at least for Fedora 19 and RHEL 6, that should be "man 2 flock" or
"See the manual page for flock(2) for details":
$ man 3 flock | wc -l
No manual entry for flock in section 3
0
$ man 2 flock | wc -l
85
Note that http://docs.python.org/3/library/fcntl.html#fcntl.flock and
http://docs.python.org/2/library/fcntl.html#fcntl.flock both have it right.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 198856
nosy: Andrew.Parker, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pydoc3 fcntl.flock documentation gives wrong man page section for flock
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.3
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