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

[Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin at columbus dot rr dot com>]

I'm a retired programmer, disabled, and several strokes.   I find my use 
of man pages extremely useful.  More than usual.  Are you saying that 
Section 2 of the man pages really don't exist?  That's a shame.

I'm off looking for a more recent Unix version.

Dave Korn wrote:
> 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.
> >     
>
>   ... so the answer to the question, "Why is it there", would be that it's a
> superfluous hanger on, debris, an epiphenomenal artifact of some build process
> somewhere in some respect; i.e., best possible advice is "Don't worry about it
> nor waste time looking into it unless you care just to satisfy your
> intellectual curiosity."
>
>     cheers,
>       Dave
>
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