Multiple (same) sets of man pages
Garrett Wollman
wollman at lcs.mit.edu
Wed Apr 23 11:28:39 PDT 2003
<<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
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