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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:46:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:40:19PM -0400, Christopher Currie wrote:
>There was supposedly a thread about docs recently, but I've had a hard time
>tracking it down. I've also been frustrated in the past by the lack of
>man pages for the Section 2 system calls, the stuff that's not covered by
>the C standard library. Most of the Linux man pages are written by the Linux
>kernel developers, and aren't "free" in the GNU sense of the word, so we
>can't borrow from their work.
>
>Therefore, I'd like to take a stab at writing the man pages for these calls.
>The best references are going to be the actual source code.  I'm assuming some
>of the low level system calls for Cygwin may end up being wrappers for Win32
>api calls, but most will in the POSIX emulation provided by Cygwin. Am I wrong?
>Can anyone think of any other research sources I could use while writing these
>pages without getting into copyright issues?

We use either the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html

Or the linux man pages as our guides when working on the UNIX functions.

cgf

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