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Andy Koppe wrote:
> However, looking at my Debian system after installing the
> 'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually taken to mean 'library
> system calls', i.e. it contains all the C-level wrappers around the
> actual syscalls. Those include many standard POSIX functions that
> Cygwin does implement, i.e. the likes of fork() and mknod().
> 
> So I guess a volunteer is needed to identify the pages that do apply
> and package them up.

I'm sure the maintainer of cygwin-doc will TC any P that does so.

--
Chuck



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