From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 13 21:12:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA20664 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20656; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA20195; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:10:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970814001037.25023@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:10:37 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: 0000-Administrator Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info files. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from 0000-Administrator on Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 04:41:35PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 04:41:35PM -0700, 0000-Administrator wrote: > > Why are there info files for the g++ library but no info files for the > plain old c library. Cause the plain of c library isn't by GNU under FreeBSD (and hopefully never will be.). FreeBSD's libc is derived from Berkeley, and the man pages are excellent. Most BSD people (well, at least most I know - myself included) don't like the 'info' system much.... 'man' is the way around the FreeBSD 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) Well, first of all look in /usr/share/doc/psd/ - the two papers you'll be most interested in are 20.ipctut and 21.ipc. They're quite good introductions to the BSD socket interface. If you're looking for a book, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by Stevens (Addison-Wesley) is excellent. He also has a Network programming book, and a couple of editions about TCP/IP. All are highly recomended. Have fun, -Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert