From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 13 18:44:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA13542 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13518; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA17340; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:13:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708140143.LAA17340@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Info files. In-Reply-To: from 0000-Administrator at "Aug 13, 97 04:41:35 pm" To: root@acromail.ml.org (0000-Administrator) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:13:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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 stands accused of saying: > > Why are there info files for the g++ library but no info files for the > plain old c library. Because the g++ library is a GNU library, whilst the C library is Berkeley-derived. The latter has an excellent collection of manpages. > 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). The standard answer : "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", and "Unix Network Programming", both by W. Richard Stevens. Any halfway decent bookstore will be able to get these. > 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 does not use the GNU C library, and likely never will. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[