Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that 
>>> goes to cygwin.patches?
>>
>> No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the
>> winsup hierarchy.  The first line of printf(3) says "NEWLIB" when
>> I type "man 3 printf" so that's where a man page patch should go.
> 
> Ok, that's what I kind-of thought... Hmm, shame on the newlib folks for 
> having such a poorly-up-to-date manpage. :-) Anyway, I guess this means 
> that gmane.comp.lib.newlib will suffice?


If that equates to newlib at sources dot redhat dot com, then yes.  Otherwise,
just send email to the newlib list.


> (But... this means what? If the newlib folks don't like it, Cygwin is 
> just stuck with a /wrong/ manpage?)


Well, we could scold them mercilessly and send them to their rooms without
dinner. ;-)

Let's not look for a problem that doesn't currently exist.



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