"man socket" is not working.

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, news.gosonic.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have /usr/include/sys/socket.h . But I need the manuals! help!!
>
> my manpath is:
>
> /usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man:/usr/X11R6/share/man
>
> Thank you !!

In general, when you need to find out whether some particular file exists
in the Cygwin distribution, use the Cygwin package search page at
<http://cygwin.com/packages/>.  A quick search for "socket\.2" shows that
it's not present in any of the packages.  This means that the socket(2)
manpage doesn't exist in Cygwin.

There are two choices:
1) Google: <http://google.com/search?q=man+socket> turns up loads of hits.
2) Help yourself and others: package and offer to maintain a
"unix_manpages" Cygwin package.  It would, of course, be preferable if you
synced the manpages with the Cygwin functionality, instead of just blindly
copying, say, the Debian set of man pages.

HTH,
	Igor
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