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On 06/04/2015 08:34 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated > from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1]) > > I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have > man-pages-posix GNU/Linux systems have two sections: 'man 3' for system writeup, and 'man 3p' for POSIX pages. This is useful, because in many instances, the system writeup has more details about Linux-specific extensions, while the 3p page is more useful for limiting usage to just portable aspects. Having both sets shouldn't hurt, if we have a way to easily open from either set. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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