X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ADA55E1.2080000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:40:17 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty References: <4ADA430A DOT 8060209 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> <416096c60910171551q681933c5ocd41ecee975e0384 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60910171551q681933c5ocd41ecee975e0384@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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