Re: sem_wait (etc.) manpage
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:14:17PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote:
> A friend of mine is looking on his Debian system for the
> manual page of sem_wait. Do you know where this can be found?
> I expected it in manpages-dev or maybe in some glibc package,
> but packages.debian.org doesn't show it anywhere. There seems
> to be a French translation of it though, funnily enough.
> His redhad system is happy with "man sem_wait", so I feel
> I should at least come up with a reasonable explanation :-)
It's part of sem_init(3) in glibc-doc. man should manage to find it
anyway if its database is up-to-date.
However, there's a bug here: glibc-doc should include symlinks for
sem_wait, sem_trywait, sem_post, sem_getvalue, sem_destroy rather than
expecting man to sort it out based on the header of the man page. See
policy section 12.1.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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