On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:19:32PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>FYI:
>
>I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to
>download my work. At
> http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz
>is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man
>directory. If
FYI:
I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to
download my work. At
http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz
is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man
directory. If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the
files has b
I already found a source: http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 which
contains ascii formatted man pages for Linux. I used curl(1) to
download the man pages, converted back to man(1) format, and installed
them. I'm sure there are other pages besides the syscall version. At
least I have a m
Andy Koppe wrote:
> However, looking at my Debian system after installing the
> 'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually taken to mean 'library
> system calls', i.e. it contains all the C-level wrappers around the
> actual syscalls. Those include many standard POSIX functions that
> Cygwin does
2009/10/18 Paul McFerrin:
> Yes, it is an emulation of a Kernel
No, there is no _syscall interface into the kernel as there is on
Linux and elsewhere. Cygwin emulates the C library layer instead.
However, looking at my Debian system after installing the
'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually
Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Are you saying that Section 2 of the man pages really don't exist?
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=%2Fman2%2F
'fraid so.
cheers,
DaveK
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I'm a retired programmer, disabled, and several strokes. I find my use
of man pages extremely useful. More than usual. Are you saying that
Section 2 of the man pages really don't exist? That's a shame.
I'm off looking for a more recent Unix version.
Dave Korn wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin:
>> I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a "man2" sub-directory but it is
>> empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for
>> cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual.
>
> Section 2 is system cal
2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin:
> I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a "man2" sub-directory but it is
> empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for
> cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual.
Section 2 is system calls, which don't exist on Cy
I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a "man2" sub-directory but it is
empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for
cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual.
I've been relying on the BSD distribution of the man pages and I get the
Secti
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