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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:51:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin:
> I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a "man2" sub-directory but it is
> empty. =C2=A0Any particular reason? =C2=A0I have Category Cygwin-doc inst=
alled 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.

Andy

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