Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 23, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Linux, 'man readdir' gets you readdir(2) (the kernel system call), > which promptly states: > >This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3) >for the POSIX conforming C library interface. Interesting, but i

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > This is not stock behaviour, nor does Fedora carry such a patch. I've linked that patch in an earlier message. > As this is a user-visible change to a core POSIX-mandated utility, I > do not believe such a patch should be included without broader support > thereto. The

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 21:59 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > > The bottom line is that when there > > are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want > > to get the right thing. Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either > > package. > > > man readdir >

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > The bottom line is that when there > are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want > to get the right thing. Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either > package. > man readdir Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid

Re: setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

2015-10-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:48 +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: > > Please update your local copy Done, thanks! -- Yaakov

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 11:38 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: > > Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and > > time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, > > owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into th

Re: setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

2015-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: […] > AG: perl-TimeDate: formating -> formatting That typo in the description is from upstream, it gets generated from the META information on CPAN. :-) http://api.metacpan.org/v0/release/TimeDate (see "ab

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: >> Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and >> time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, >> owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic >> man3 directory, which ca

setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

2015-10-23 Thread Jon Turney
I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: Please update your local copy JA: apngdis: invividual -> individual YS: artikulate : pronounciation -> pronunciation YS: autoconf2.1: creattes -> creates JY: binutils: assember -> assembler MA: catdoc: charachers -> character

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: > Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and > time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, > owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic > man3 directory, which causes them to take precedence ov