https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80541 Bug ID: 80541 Summary: man pages for unimplemented functions provoke name clash Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: j.wuttke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No A page like cerf(3), which says "not yet in glibc, as at version 2.12", provokes a name clash if some other library provides the missing implementation. The rpm package managers reacts to such name clash by suggesting to uninstall libc, which is no clever resolution. I suggest to resolve this problem by moving man pages of unimplemented functions to manual section 7, so that they can peacefully coexist in the shadow of section 3 pages provided by more specific libraries. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
