From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 13 17:23:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09708 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA09686; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04477; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd004475; Thu Aug 14 00:21:16 1997 Message-ID: <33F24EEE.695678E2@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:18:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 0000-Administrator CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info files. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 0000-Administrator wrote: > > Why are there info files for the g++ library but no info files for the > plain old c library. I learned most of what I know about network > programming from the libc info files for linux --- either that or what is > some good docs for general app/net programming under freebsd In particular > the short and to the point examples of how the structures (and their > definitions) are used (all stuff that is in the gnu c library info files). > Does freebsd actually use the gnu c library, can someone explain what it > uses and where I can get a book that explains how to use all the system > calls? (yes, I do know about man pages) FreeBSD doesn't use the gnu libc. it uses the Berkeley libc. It is copiously documented i the man pages and in the DOC directories.. Also look on the web page at the bibliography. 'info' is a gnu home-grown thing that the gnu people use no-one else uses th info stuff really. the eqaul argument is 'why doesn't gnu provide man pages for their stuff?' (sometime they do sometimes they don't)