X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ADB21E5.5090801@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:10:45 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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> <4ADA606F.8000502@columbus.rr.com> <416096c60910172327w261e736ew33f18a5ede2f231a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60910172327w261e736ew33f18a5ede2f231a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Andy Koppe wrote: > However, looking at my Debian system after installing the > 'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually taken to mean 'library > system calls', i.e. it contains all the C-level wrappers around the > actual syscalls. Those include many standard POSIX functions that > Cygwin does implement, i.e. the likes of fork() and mknod(). > > So I guess a volunteer is needed to identify the pages that do apply > and package them up. I'm sure the maintainer of cygwin-doc will TC any P that does so. -- Chuck -- 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