On 18/01/13 14:57, Colin Watson wrote:
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.
I see you point. Thank you for the explanation.
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