X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ADA697F.5060408@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:03:59 -0400 From: Paul McFerrin Reply-To: pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty References: <4ADA430A.8060209@columbus.rr.com> <416096c60910171551q681933c5ocd41ecee975e0384@mail.gmail.com> <4ADA55E1.2080000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADA55E1.2080000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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