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Glibc and the kernel user-space API

Glibc and the kernel user-space API

Posted Jan 31, 2013 0:09 UTC (Thu) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978)
In reply to: Glibc and the kernel user-space API by justincormack
Parent article: Glibc and the kernel user-space API

And the documentation in man(2) is very schizophrenic, as it is sometimes about the syscall and sometimes about the glibc interface or quirks. Ideally there should be entries in man 2 and man 3 for some more calls (or all of them?).

There's some relevant thoughts about this here. The main point is that the user shouldn't (as far as I am concerned) need to consult two pages to get the information they need.


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