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Subject: Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p
From: Warren Young <wyml () etr-usa ! com>
Date: 2015-10-23 22:49:24
Message-ID: 50C4D2A9-4921-4411-984D-125876F1DAD7 () etr-usa ! com
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On Oct 23, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>
> On Linux, 'man readdir' gets you readdir(2) (the kernel system call),
> which promptly states:
>
> This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3)
> for the POSIX conforming C library interface.
Interesting, but irrelevant, since Cygwin doesn't have that collision.
Also, not all of the pages mentioned have such a collision on Linux. opendir and \
fnmatch, for two.
I don't think Cygwin needs to replicate every Linux imperfection. It's okay if it \
manages to improve on some things, occasionally. :)
> I see nothing to fix in either package.
Would moving 3p in front of 3 be such a horrible change?
I mean, how often does someone want the gawk module pages anyway, as compared to the \
POSIX pages they shadow?
I expect 3 is in front of 3p for Linux because Linux has a separate set of non-POSIX \
pages. But Cygwin doesn't, and isn't likely to, so 3p should be preferred.=
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