Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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

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