On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Lanoxx wrote: > it seems that for solaris there exists a man page for types.h [1] > but I could not find such a man page on ubuntu. Could someone give > me a hint, why it does not exist or is the man page name just > different on ubuntu?
We don't tend to have manual pages for header files, only for the functions they contain. This is arguably a bit awkward for <sys/types.h> which doesn't actually contain any functions. I don't think it's a huge problem, though, since the dominating reason why you might choose any given type from that header over any other one would be because of its use in a library function, and there should be manual pages for all the standard library functions which document the types they're intended to take. For documentation of the various system-specific conditional macros used in <sys/types.h>, I recommend feature_test_macros(7) (or ftm(7) for short). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss