Hi Colin, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/17551 reports > (and I've confirmed) that gethostid/sethostid are in section 2 despite > being implemented by glibc, not the kernel; they aren't just syscall > stubs either. Should they be moved to section 3? I suspect this is a historical thing, since in the original BSD docs, these interfaces were documented in Section 2, although I see FreeBSD for example now has them in Section 3. Anyway, I have relocated the page to section 3 as you suggest, and created some .so link files so that "man 2 [gs]ethostid" will continue to do the right thing. (There were also a few other broken pieces in the page -- e.g., no return value or error description for sethostid() -- that I also fixed along the way.) The changes will be in man-pages-3.16. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
