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Subject: Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
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FYI:

I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to 
download my work.  At
         http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz
is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man 
directory.  If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the 
files has been moved to a .deleted directory.

Please be advised that this TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL.  They have NOT been 
reviewed for correctness with Cygwin.  They are however a valuable 
resource.   Enjoy.  I would advised putting these pages into a local man 
directory, separate from system installation.  They were downloaded from:
     http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2
which were <PRE> pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files; 
including <B> & <I> processing for dumb rxvt windows.
    

Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin:
>   
>> I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a "man2" sub-directory but it is
>> empty.  Any particular reason?  I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for
>> cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual.
>>     
>
> Section 2 is system calls, which don't exist on Cygwin, because it's a
> POSIX implementation on top of Win32 rather than an emulation of a
> Unix kernel.
>
> Andy
>
>   

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