On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:05:47PM +0100, Lanoxx wrote: > On 17/01/13 13:40, Oliver Grawert wrote: > >Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2013, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Lanoxx: > >>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? > > > >the manpage for types.h is in the manpages-posix-dev package, note that > >we dont install devleoper documentation by default ... > > Thanks, that was what I was looking for. Maybe you can make > manpages-dev recommend this package, so it is automatically > installed if developer manpages are installed?
The one in manpages-posix-dev is not really quite the same. What that documents is what POSIX guarantees of <sys/types.h>, not what the system provides; so it won't tell you about any system-specific extensions, some of which might be very important to you (e.g. large file support). I think manpages-posix(-dev) are useful packages and I'm glad they exist; but I also think they should only be installed when people explicitly ask for them, because it's quite easy to miss the fact that you're looking at a manual page which documents POSIX guarantees rather than your actual system. -- 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
