Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:01:09 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Tim Singletary <tsingle@talon.clark.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndbm function man pages? Message-ID: <19990704200109.B71138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199907011224.IAA19350@talon.clark.net>; from Tim Singletary on Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:24:14AM -0400 References: <199907011224.IAA19350@talon.clark.net>
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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Tim Singletary wrote:
> I just noticed that FreeBSD 3.2 doesn't have man pages for the ndbm
> functions (dbm_open(), dbm_close(), dbm_fetch(), etc) even though
> these are in libc.
Do you happen to know which part of the source tree they come from?
I'm running 3.2-stable, which has /usr/src/lib/libc/man/, and manual
pages for dbopen(3), btree(3), and so on.
A look in /usr/src/lib/libc/db/hash/ shows the dbm_* functions are
defined here, but it also looks like the proper way to use them is
via the dbopen(3) function.
> Is this the appropriate place to ask why?
Sort of. I'm not a dbm_ programmer, and if no one else answers with
authorative advice you may be better off double checking on the -questions
or -hackers mailing lists first.
> Is anyone fixing this?
Not that I know of.
> If not, I can submit a bare-bone stub-of-a-man-page for these
> functions ...
Please do, using send-pr(1) if at all possible. As I say, please check
on -questions or -hackers first though.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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