i386 specific manual pages

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 15:17:45 UTC 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:55:59PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> could we please have the following manual pages
> 
> lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ioperm.2
> lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ldt.2
> lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_set_watch.3 (can this also be accessed?)
> lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_vm86.2
> 
> installed into /usr/share/man/man{2,3}/i386? they can be accessed via
> sysarch(2) and are explicitly being referenced by its manual page.
> 
> that way doing 'man -mi386 i386_get_ioperm' e.g. would work under arch=amd64.

Just a note: all of them except vm86 can be reasonably implemented on
amd64, as well are supported under ia32 emulation on amd64. I am not
sure that suggestion to do the work make sence, since they functions
looks unused even on i386.
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