From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector@telia.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: man 2 setpriority - issues
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NGBBLLIAMFLGJEOAJCCEKEHKDEAA.garbage_collector@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030923153544.GA4399@redhat.com>
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
> >> $ man 2 getpriority
> >> ...
> >> SYNOPSIS
> >> ...
> >> int
> >> setpriority(int which, int who, int prio);
> >> ...
> >>
> >> $ man 2 setpriority
> >> No entry for setpriority in section 2 of the manual
> >>
> >> IMO this is very confusing IF you're not aware of it. I spent some time
> >> finding out.
> >
> >FWIW, I don't have manpage for getpriority on my system, and the
> search of
> >Cygwin packages turned out nothing, so I have no idea which package
> >contains it. That being said, the usual solution for this problem is
> >"cd /usr/share/man/man2 && ln -s getpriority.2 setpriority.2", which goes
> >into the postinstall script for the package (whatever it is).
>
> Right. cygwin doesn't export a [gs]etpriority, so if some package is
> exporting it, that is... interesting.
>
> Also note:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=man2%2F
>
> which shows that no package contains a 'man2/' string. This indicates
> that the getpriority man page probably didn't come from a standard
> cygwin package.
You're both fully correct; I have fooled myself once again:
$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man::/usr/ssl/man
:/cygdrive/e/Amiga/GG/man
$ man -W 2 getpriority
/cygdrive/e/Amiga/GG/man/man2/getpriority.2
This is manpages that comes with an old version of "geekgadgets"
(www.geekgadgets.org) - a project that reflects cygwin, but on/for AmigaOS.
Conclusion: Remember the above, or remove that last MANPATH-item. ,:-I
> >>Then; "PRIO_PROCESS" mentioned later in the manpage doesn't seem to be
> >>defined anywhere in the include files...
> >>
> >>$ cd /usr/include/ $ grep PRIO_PROCESS * $
> >
> >Try "find /usr/include -type f | xargs grep -H PRIO_PROCESS".
>
> If it does find something, it isn't going to be useful.
$ find /usr/include -type f | xargs grep -H PRIO_PROCESS
$
i.e. nothing...
> >>Any pointers on where to find it - or how to bypass this when it gets
> >>used in something you wish to build?
Neither of you commented on this - which, for me, is a greater concern. I'm
not going to say that it is _important_, but I'd like to read some words
about it.
e.g: Is this a "low priority" thing, doesn't Win have something that allows
an easy implementation, or...
Googling on [gs]etpriority turns upp hits in glibc-hacker only. Nothing
cygwin related.
> >>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-hacker/2002-07/msg00013.html seems to
> >>contain a diff on resources.h that adds (removes?) PRIO_PROCESS and
> >>friends. Is this a "correct" change to apply?
>
> I'm not sure why we are talking about IBM S390 (!) changes to glibc
> (!!!) in the cygwin mailing list.
Well, I obviously had my eyes more on the fact that there was a patch
removing/inserting PRIO_PROCESS into resources.h - not really checking WHERE
the google hits came from (as I had typed "site:cygwin.com" I didn't expect
deviations from that).
Now I realize that both hits I got was rather irrelevant.
> In case you don't know it, cygwin.com == sources.redhat.com.
> The mailing list archives for the cygwin mailing list are mixed with
> the archives for all of the other mailing lists on sources.redhat.com.
> See http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html for a list of mailing lists on
> sources.redhat.com.
I'm taking "notes" :-) - thanks!
Is there words about using google on "site:cygwin.com" in the FAQ or some
such? This note might need to be added there... (or a modified version).
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 15:20 Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
2003-09-23 15:32 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-23 15:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-23 19:54 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) [this message]
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