Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:10:37 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: 0000-Administrator <root@acromail.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info files. Message-ID: <19970814001037.25023@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813163737.2506A-100000@acromail.ml.org>; from 0000-Administrator on Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 04:41:35PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813163737.2506A-100000@acromail.ml.org>
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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
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