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Date: | Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:03:59 -0400 |
From: | Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty |
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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: > >> 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 Cygwin, because it's a >> POSIX implementation on top of Win32 rather than an emulation of a >> Unix kernel. >> > > ... so the answer to the question, "Why is it there", would be that it's a > superfluous hanger on, debris, an epiphenomenal artifact of some build process > somewhere in some respect; i.e., best possible advice is "Don't worry about it > nor waste time looking into it unless you care just to satisfy your > intellectual curiosity." > > cheers, > Dave > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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