Some versions of documentation declare certain functions like parameters declared in the signature and, e.g., Arch Linux: ssize_t read(size_t count; int fd, void buf[count], size_t count);...

Often in embedded systems, storage is a bit limited. Hence, you rather not bundle in all the man pages onboard. Later on, I still want to access the manual pages for the specific package versions ...

MacOS has a set of defined URLs for manpages under x-man-page://command. You can open these from a web browser or directly from Terminal with the command open x-man-page://command, which opens a nice ...

having a npm package where added man in the package.json and also generate the man file with .1 below is the folder structure . ├── bin │   └── health-check.js ├── CHANGELOG.md ├── docs │   └── gh-...

Background First of all, I know the general reason strsignal() is not threading safe is the standard says it may not be. The strsignal() GNU C standard library function is defined in the POSIX.1-2008 ...

I'm creating a CLI tool in Rust. I have written a man page for it (i.e., a file for use with Linux's man command). I want to include it with my project, such that people can cargo install my-project ...

I was recently trying to understand why running pip install --upgrade wasn't upgrading some packages in my virtualenv. Being on Ubuntu 22.04, I turned to the manpages for help. There I found the ...

I have cygwin version 3.4.10-1.x86_64 installed on my windows 7 machine. Until recently I could call man on any topic, e.g. $ man man; $man ls, etc. and the relevant man page would be displayed. I ...

setsockopt call may fail with ENODEV error, see Error "No such device" in call setsockopt when joining multicast group and what is the cause of ENODEV error from setsockopt for example. ...

I'm practicing with threads in Linux and I'm wondering why the code was written like this: #include <pthread.h> #include <stdio.h> pthread_attr_t attr; struct thread_info { pthread_t ...

Cygwin: man column contains unexpected characters instead of - (minus sign, hyphen): # cygwin $ man column | grep -P 'table.*truncate' | od -c 0000000 - T , - ...

What does the notation void addr[.length] in mmap(2) mean? I could interpret void *addr or size_t length, but what is the semantics of this "mixed" notation?

Background I am implementing syscall wrappers for libc. As a natural requirement, I will need to add unit tests to the wrappers. I rely heavily on https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_all_alphabetic....

In some man pages, e.g. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memchr.3.html, I see the following: void *memchr(const void s[.n], int c, size_t n); What is the significance or interpretation of ...

man getaddrinfo shows me documentation for the getaddrinfo() function without my having to search online. The various structs defined in libc are equally useful to learn about but don't appear in my ...