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The file bsdman.tar.Z contains man files for the BSD libc.a.
Since nearly all of these functions are in the libc.a that comes with
gcc.2.2.2 these can be considered good documentation for Linux.

Some of the details will be incorrect ( particularly the header files
may be different to those in the man pages)

There are man pages for routines that have not found there way into Linux
yet. I've included these as 1) they may well be when you read this
and 2) If your porting a program that uses a library routine that Linux
doesn't have you might want to have some doc on it.


*NOTE  these files should be formated with -mandoc (NOT -man)
*NOTE  ( I now use groff -mandoc for all man files since it seems to
*NOTE    handle files that use -man as well )


The whatis file was generated using

#!/bin/sh
for i do
echo $i
groff -mandoc $i | sed -f ../makewhatis.sed >> whatis.db
done

The whatis.db file needs some editing to create a proper whatis file.


Gerard Allan

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Contents (this is the whatis file)
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exit (2) - terminate the calling process
accept (2) - accept a connection on a socket
access (2) - check access permissions of a file or pathname
acct (2) - enable or disable process accounting
adjtime (2) - correct the time to allow synchronization of the system clock
bind (2) - bind a name to a socket
brk, sbrk (2) - change data segment size
chdir, fchdir (2) - change current working directory
chflags, fchflags (2) - set file flags
chmod, fchmod (2) - change mode of file
chown, fchown (2) - change owner and group of a file
chroot (2) - change root directory
close (2) - delete a descriptor
connect (2) - initiate a connection on a socket
dup, dup2 (2) - duplicate an existing file descriptor
execve (2) - execute a file
fcntl (2) - file control
flock (2) - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
fork (2) - create a new process
fsync (2) - synchronize a file's in-core state with that on disk
getfh (2) - get file handle
getfsstat (2) - get list of all mounted filesystems
getgid, getegid (2) - get group process identification
getgroups (2) - get group access list
gethostid, sethostid (2) - get/set unique identifier of current host
gethostname, sethostname (2) - get/set name of current host
getitimer, setitimer (2) - get/set value of interval timer
getlogin, setlogin (2) - get/set login name
getpagesize (2) - get system page size
getpeername (2) - get name of connected peer
getpgrp (2) - get process group
getpid, getppid (2) - get parent or calling process identification
getpriority, setpriority (2) - get/set program scheduling priority
getrlimit, setrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource consumption
getrusage (2) - get information about resource utilization
getsockname (2) - get socket name
getsockopt, setsockopt (2) - get and set options on sockets
getuid, geteuid (2) - get user identification
intro (2) - introduction to system calls and error numbers
ioctl (2) - control device
kill (2) - send signal to a process
link (2) - make a hard file link
listen (2) - listen for connections on a socket
lseek (2) - reposition read/write file offset
madvise (2) - give advise about use of memory
mincore (2) - get advise about use of memory
mkdir (2) - make a directory file
mkfifo (2) - make a fifo file
mknod (2) - make a special file node
mmap (2) - map files or devices into memory
mount, unmount (2) - mount or dismount a filesystem
mprotect (2) - control the protection of pages
msync (2) - synchronize a mapped region
munmap (2) - remove a mapping
nfssvc (2) - create a remote NFS server
open (2) - open or create a file for reading or writing
pipe (2) - create descriptor pair for interprocess communication
quotactl (2) - manipulate filesystem quotas
read, readv (2) - read input
readlink (2) - read value of a symbolic link
reboot (2) - reboot system or halt processor
recv, recvfrom, recvmsg (2) - receive a message from a socket
rename (2) - change the name of a file
rmdir (2) - remove a directory file
select (2) - synchronous I/O multiplexing
send, sendto, sendmsg (2) - send a message from a socket
setgroups (2) - set group access list
setpgid, setpgrp (2) - set process group
setregid (2) - set real and effective group ID
setreuid (2) - set real and effective user ID's
shutdown (2) - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
sigaction (2) - software signal facilities
sigprocmask (2) - manipulate current signal mask
sigreturn (2) - return from signal
sigstack (2) - set and/or get signal stack context
sigsuspend (2) - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
socket (2) - create an endpoint for communication
socketpair (2) - create a pair of connected sockets
stat, lstat, fstat (2) - get file status
statfs (2) - get file system statistics
swapon (2) - add a swap device for interleaved paging/swapping
symlink (2) - make symbolic link to a file
sync (2) - synchronize disk block in-core status with that on disk
syscall (2) - indirect system call
truncate (2) - truncate a file to a specified length
umask (2) - set file creation mode mask
unlink (2) - remove directory entry
utimes (2) - set file access and modification times
vfork (2) - spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way
wait, waitpid, wait4, wait3 (2) - wait for process terminatation
write, writev (2) - write output
creat (2) - create a new file
killpg (2) - send signal to a process group
sigblock (2) - block signals
sigpause (2) - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
sigsetmask (2) - set current signal mask
sigvec (2) - software signal facilities
abort (3) - cause abnormal program termination
abs (3) - integer absolute value function
alarm (3) - set signal timer alarm
alloca (3) - memory allocator
atexit (3) - register a function to be called on exit
atof (3) - convert ASCII string to double
atoi (3) - convert ASCII string to integer
atol (3) - convert ASCII string to long integer
bcmp (3) - compare byte string
bcopy (3) - copy byte string
bsearch (3) - binary search of a sorted table
bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset (3) -     byte string operations
bzero (3) - write zeroes to a byte string
calloc (3) - allocate clean memory (zero initialized space)
clock (3) - determine processor time used
crypt, setkey, encrypt, des_setkey, des_cipher (3) - DES encryption
ctermid (3) - generate terminal pathname
asctime, ctime, difftime, gmtime, localtime, mktime (3) - transform binary date and time value to ASCII
isalpha, isupper, islower, isdigit, isxdigit, isalnum, isspace, ispunct, isprint, isgraph, iscntrl, isascii, toupper, tolower, toascii (3) - character classification macros
opendir, readdir, telldir, seekdir, rewinddir, closedir, dirfd (3) - directory operations
div (3) - return quotient and remainder from division
execl, execlp, execle, exect, execv, execvp (3) - execute a file
exit (3) - perform normal program termination
fclose (3) - close a stream
clearerr, feof, ferror, fileno (3) - check and reset stream status
fflush, fpurge (3) - flush a stream
ffs (3) - find first bit set in a bit string
fgetline (3) - get a line from a stream
fgets, gets (3) - get a line from a stream
fnmatch (3) - match filename or pathname
fopen, fdopen, freopen (3) - stream open functions
fputs, puts (3) - output a line to a stream
fread, fwrite (3) - binary stream input/output
free (3) - free up memory allocated with malloc, calloc or realloc
frexp (3) - convert floating-point number to fractional and integral components
fgetpos, fseek, fsetpos, ftell, rewind (3) - reposition a stream
fts (3) - traverse a file hierarchy
funopen, fropen, fwopen (3) - open a stream
fgetc, getc, getchar, getw (3) - get next character or word from input stream
getwd (3) - get working directory pathname
getenv, putenv, setenv, unsetenv (3) - environment variable functions
getfsent, getfsspec, getfsfile, setfsent, endfsent (3) - get file system descriptor file entry
getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid, setgroupent, setgrent, endgrent (3) - group database operations
getmntinfo (3) - get information about mounted file systems
getopt (3) - get option letter from argv
getpass (3) - get a password
getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, setpassent, setpwent, endpwent (3) - password database operations
getsubopt (3) - get sub options from an argument
getttyent, getttynam, setttyent, endttyent (3) - get ttys file entry
glob, globfree (3) - generate pathnames matching a pattern
index (3) - locate character in string
initgroups (3) - initialize group access list
isalnum (3) - alphanumeric character test
isalpha (3) - alphabetic character test
isascii (3) - ascii character test
iscntrl (3) - control character test
isdigit (3) - decimal-digit character test
isgraph (3) - printing character test (space character exculsive)
isinf, isnan (3) - test for infinity or not-a-number (NaN)
islower (3) - lower-case character test
isprint (3) - printing character test (space character inclusive)
ispunct (3) - punctuation character test
isspace (3) - white-space character test
isupper (3) - upper-case character test
isxdigit (3) - hexadecimal-digit character test
labs (3) - return the absolute value of a long integer
ldexp (3) - mutliply floating-point number by integral power of 2
ldiv (3) - return quotient and remainder from division
malloc, (3) - general memory allocation function
memchr (3) - locate byte in byte string
memcmp (3) - compare byte string
memcpy (3) - copy byte string
memmove (3) - copy byte string
malloc, free, realloc, calloc, alloca (3) - general memory allocation operations
memset (3) - write a byte to byte string
mktemp (3) - make temporary file name (unique)
modf (3) - extract signed integral and fractional values from floating-point number
nice (3) - set program scheduling priority
nlist (3) - retrieve symbol table name list from an executable file
pause (3) - stop until signal
popen, pclose (3) - process I/O
printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
psignal, sys_siglist (3) - system signal messages
fputc, putc, putchar, putw (3) - output a character or word to a stream
qsort, heapsort (3) - sort functions
radixsort (3) - radix sort
raise (3) - send a signal to the current process
rand, srand (3) - bad random number generator
random, srandom, initstate, setstate (3) - better random number generator;     routines for changing generators
realloc (3) - reallocation of memory function
regcomp, regexec, regsub, regerror (3) - regular expression handlers
remove (3) - remove directory entry
rindex (3) - locate character in string
scandir, alphasort (3) - scan a directory
scanf, fscanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf, vfscanf (3) - input format conversion
setbuf, setbuffer, setlinebuf, setvbuf (3) - stream buffering operations
sigsetjmp, siglongjmp, setjmp, longjmp, _setjmp, _longjmp longjmperror (3) -     non-local jumps
getmode, setmode (3) - modify mode bits
setuid, seteuid, setruid, setgid, setegid, setrgid (3) - set user and group ID
signal (3) - simplified software signal facilities
sigsetops, sigemptyset, sigfillset, sigaddset, sigdelset, sigismember (3) -     manipulate signal masks
sleep (3) - suspend process execution for interval of seconds
stdio (3) - standard input/output library functions
strcasecmp (3) - compare strings, ignoring case
strcat (3) - concatenate strings
strchr (3) - locate character in string
strcmp (3) - compare strings
strcoll (3) - compare strings according to current collation
strcpy (3) - copy strings
strcspn (3) - span the complement of a string
strdup (3) - save a copy of a string
perror, strerror, sys_errlist, sys_nerr (3) - system error messages
strftime (3) - format date and time
strcat, strncat, strchr, strrchr, strcmp, strncmp, strcasecmp, strncasecmp, strcpy, strncpy, strerror, strlen, strpbrk, strsep, strspn, strcspn, strstr, strtok, index, rindex (3) - string specific functions
strlen (3) - find length of string
strmode (3) - convert inode status information into a symbolic string
strpbrk (3) - locate multiple characters in string
strrchr (3) - locate character in string
strsep (3) - separate strings
strspn (3) - span a string
strstr (3) - locate a substring in a string
strtod (3) - convert ASCII string to double
strtok, strsep (3) - string token operations
strtol (3) - convert string value to a long integer
strtoul (3) - convert a string to an unsigned long integer
strxfrm (3) - transform a string under locale
swab (3) - swap adjacent bytes
syslog, vsyslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask (3) - control system log
system (3) - pass a command to the shell
time (3) - get time of day
times (3) - process times
timezone (3) - return the timezone abbreviation
tempnam, tmpfile, tmpnam (3) - temporary file routines
tolower (3) - upper case to lower case letter conversion
toupper (3) - lower case to upper case letter conversion
ttyname, isatty, ttyslot (3) - get name of associated terminal (tty) from file descriptor
tzset, tzsetwall (3) - initialize time conversion information
ualarm (3) - schedule signal after specified time
ungetc (3) - un-get character from input stream
unvis, strunvis (3) - decode a visual representation of characters
usleep (3) - suspend execution for interval of microseconds
utime (3) - set file times
valloc (3) - aligned memory allocation function
vis (3) - visually encode characters
acos (3) - arc cosine function
acosh (3) - inverse hyperbolic cosine function
asin (3) - arc sine function
asinh (3) - inverse hyperbolic sine function
atan (3) - arc tangent function of one variable
atan2 (3) - arc tangent function of two variables
atanh (3) - inverse hyperbolic tangent function
ceil (3) - smallest integral value not greater than x
cos (3) - cosine function
cosh (3) - hyperbolic cosine function
erf, erfc (3) - error function operators
exp, expm1, log, log10, log1p, pow (3) - exponential, logarithm, power functions
fabs (3) - floating-point absolute value function
floor (3) - largest integral value not greater than x
fmod (3) - floating-point remainder function
hypot, cabs (3) - euclidean distance and complex absolute value functions
copysign, drem, finite, logb, scalb copysign, remainder, (3) - exponent manipulations
infnan (3) - signals invalid floating-point operations on a VAX (temporary)
j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
lgamma (3) - log gamma function
 (math) - introduction to mathematical library functions
rint (3) - and round-to-closest integer functions
sin (3) - sine function
sinh (3) - hyperbolic sine function
cbrt, sqrt (3) - cube root and square root functions
tan (3) - tangent function
tanh (3) - hyperbolic tangent function
regexp, regcomp, regexec, regsub, regerror (3) - regular expression handlers