Re: Multiple (same) sets of man pages

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:28:35 -0400 (EDT)
<<On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:08:40 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_pcnet1.pcnet.com> said:

> Right, but there may be extensions in some that aren't in the
> others.  So those would be library-specific man pages.  Like
> pthread_switch_{add,delete}_np() that I believe is only supported
> in libc_r.  I have no plans on supporting it in libpthread
> since it really doesn't make sense there.  There will also be
> other functions available in libpthread that aren't in libc_r
> (and perhaps libthr).

Not a doc person, nor a threads person, but I would suggest that there
should be a single set of manual pages, and for each interface which
differs, the appropriate manual page itself should set out the
differences among the libraries.

-GAWollman
Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 09:28:39 UTC

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