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Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:49:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p
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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 doesnât have that collision.
Also, not all of the pages mentioned have such a collision on Linux. opendir and fnmatch, for two.
I donât think Cygwin needs to replicate every Linux imperfection. Itâs 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 doesnât, and isnât likely to, so 3p should be preferred.