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From: Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation for /dev/tun
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:17:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060127091758.GA6646@kestrel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601261543000.15286@twin.jikos.cz>

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:44:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> 
> > I have /dev/tun on my system and would like to read documentation about
> > it. Because I already know that /dev/ttyS0 has manual page under man
> > ttyS, I typed man tun No manual entry for tun also info tun No menu item
> > `tun' in node `(dir)Top'. I also tried "tun" and "/dev/tun" at Wikipedia
> > and they have nothing.
> 
> Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
> drivers/net/tun.c is quite easy to read too.

Why is man ttyS present and man tun missing? Is there any rule which says
which devices should have manpage and which not?

CL<
> 
> -- 
> JiKos.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-27  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-26 14:04 Documentation for /dev/tun Karel Kulhavy
2006-01-26 14:44 ` Jiri Kosina
2006-01-27  9:17   ` Karel Kulhavy [this message]
2006-01-27 14:15     ` Erik Mouw

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