From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: SEE ALSO: func based or man page based? Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20160216222613.GJ7732@vapier.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cQx5fYD6zrLPRXWY" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --cQx5fYD6zrLPRXWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline i often remember the func name "sigprocmask". but when i'm in that page, i have a hard time remembering the exact naming for the set operators. rather than search, i figure just checking out the SEE ALSO section will quickly answer me ... except it doesn't (directly). this is what sigprocmask(2) has: SEE ALSO kill(2), pause(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigpending(2), sigsuspend(2), pthread_sigmask(3), sigqueue(3), sigsetops(3), signal(7) i read that a few times and then just start picking signal related pages until i stumble across sigsetops(3). is there a policy against listing the functions that appear in a grouped page ? or would it be ok to add the funcs in the sigsetops page directly to sigprocmask's SEE ALSO ? grepping shows that at least select_tut(2) is out of sync ... -mike --cQx5fYD6zrLPRXWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWw6IFAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBHXEQANjuFcpJNtEpSvOzBtQVBBxz rv3XrPmPRyw8IClw3RHcHpWFHr6CVzV32j3yEJwi+uaHI1dVPe3ZBYoexPbPWy+I +c5l8FjdZen4wNXyQHdl2nsLYZcC3U3AXfYatlX31KonkaqiGfOcVGCd6Ban35Tu Ts4bF+x/LCAr39J7b2agAgh5Drcm1dHTZs/AqUdYD6nxB6jV7IRI8ZagYZ6mFT8n IboygUaHf2qpz7d+sefT45ngv/vr9plLI/MX8fM20oTlsOzOYzmMeKrRsWrl3vOG kQCGcK4STXZx/Ny5t4HJcuoqOoIfX3cqFSOtIlwuSf5ZpvNXLBrf9eTbMDJ3QisR 5X/NNBuBYZK9wFKYY0ogrgd12er1F5QgNy8S06e3pYX0sS7FzEaCgyIdEEpqTACo rEzWwpXSt4RRlUdFpXyHbAr/V4iRXKHSjlRQtwthAHDuegITbQXQ4Qg0YKwP/Dcy 2f9ZrOpzebucyd99FHwg5KRRXvrsb7fDGetpBzqnhr9pPIDNPSJ9Kxj2JsuZzSu1 JtB9a/5vObgZSTcP9pdiKCH6gSRM8JZy3Rz0lUJCmstIvgRND4GJVC3126U5IlPs HYhzavTY99m7sXayjiKoQJYTe9VSfL4QXkiCS8554l5jMWkoyNnK9H4zro4QfWmU 0GVZAsfKNkIKco6wgyOQ =0xXo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cQx5fYD6zrLPRXWY-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html