Debian Bug report logs - #25426
libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <aj@fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:06:04 +0200

Package: libc6-doc
Version: 2.0.7t-1

Several Functions are not documented, e.g. the resolver stuff or 
ether_ntoa . My neighbor has openBSD, which has such a manpage.
maybe it's allowed to copy these manpages and add them to the debian
documentation (with changes if necessary). could be interesting for the
upstream author, too.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux fw-athene 2.0.33 #1 Wed Apr 22 12:38:07 CEST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6-doc depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7t-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)

Message #10 received at 25426@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>

To: aj@fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de, 25426@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#25426: libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:24:18 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 aj@fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:

> Package: libc6-doc
> Version: 2.0.7t-1
> 
> Several Functions are not documented, e.g. the resolver stuff or 
> ether_ntoa . My neighbor has openBSD, which has such a manpage.
> maybe it's allowed to copy these manpages and add them to the debian
> documentation (with changes if necessary). could be interesting for the
> upstream author, too.

Could you please be more specific? "resolver stuff" isn't very clear, and
which "such a manpage" does openBSD provide and where will I find it?

In addition, it would be helpful if you could verify that this information
is also not available in the Info pages?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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Message #15 received at 25426@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de>

To: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>, 25426@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#25426: libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:09:05 +0200

sorry. www.openbsd.org gives a list of mirrors (i'm useing ftp.fu-berlin.de).
/pub/unix/openbsd/mirrors/OpenBSD/src/lib/libc/net
contains ethers.3

i guess there are maybe also other manpages where glibc has the function but
not the documentation. so if you have or get bug reports, you can look there.

> In addition, it would be helpful if you could verify that this information
> is also not available in the Info pages?

for ethers : "ether_" is not in glibc doc, ether_ functions are in
netinet/ether.h and are in libc.a ...

there are other undocumented functions in glibc like res_sendhookact,
but i didn't find documentation ...

if i find other examples for undocmuented+doc_available, i will mail again.

thanks for your help.

andreas

Message #24 received at 25426@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Kurt D. Starsinic" <kstar@sri.net>

To: 25426@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#25426: libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:16:06 -0500

Hi,

    Manpages for the pty-related functions are also missing, although they're
documented in the info files:

        getpt(), grantpt(), unlockpt(), ptsname(), ptsname_r(), openpty(), 
        and forkpty().

    In the absence of useful results from `apropos pty', I found it
challenging to start to learn how pseudottys work.

    - Kurt

Message #29 received at 25426-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: kstar@sri.net, 25426-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#25426: libc6-doc: manpages are missing : e.g. ether_ntoa

Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:28:08 -0500

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:16:06PM -0500, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     Manpages for the pty-related functions are also missing, although they're
> documented in the info files:
> 
>         getpt(), grantpt(), unlockpt(), ptsname(), ptsname_r(), openpty(), 
>         and forkpty().
> 
>     In the absence of useful results from `apropos pty', I found it
> challenging to start to learn how pseudottys work.

glibc does not provide manpages, however there are info pages, and all of
these functions are documented there. Use "info libc", and search for the
particular function.

Give that these are documented (nothing says they have to be manpages) in
the glibc info pages, then this is a closed issue.

The manpages-dev package might be interested in updating it's collection
to include these (which is where the function manpages are kept).

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