Re: sem_wait (etc.) manpage
At Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:20:04 +0000,
Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Exactly. I'll put such modifications.
Regards,
-- gotom
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