On 21 Aug 2001, Yong Jing Hung wrote:
> Does anyone know why the C library doesn't work? I try to do 'man
> fork' but it doesn not pick up. It simply says that there isn't any
> manual page for it? Can someone help me here? Thanks.
You want the libc info manual. Install the deb package glibc-doc (at least
that is what it is called on potato), and fire up your favourite info
viewer. The node you want is called libc. In emacs you do
Ctrl h and then i. Type m for menu. Then enter libc at the prompt.
Or you could use
info -f libc
at a shell prompt (stand-alone info viewer).
For fork you might want to look at the node "Creating a Process".
Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
