Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:26:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing Message-ID: <20011008232616.A22479@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <3BB936E7 DOT 6060900 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <20011008224019 DOT A863 AT mamet DOT westofhouse DOT net> <20011008224618 DOT A22309 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011008224618.A22309@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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. By "UNIX functions", I mean the UNIX functions that Cygwin emulates... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/