MISSING(7)                          Linux Programmer's Manual                          MISSING(7)



NAME
       missing - missing manual pages

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page intends to document which manual pages are missing in various sections.
       Bug reports against the package manpages-dev or manpages  were  opened  for  all  of  them
       through  the  Debian  Bug  Tracking System (BTS).  Some of these bug reports were reported
       upstream while some weren't.  Upstream, however, is not able to create arbitrary  manpages
       without  additional information and additional spare time.  Hence, it's completely useless
       to simply report them upstream.

       Manpages represent an important means of documentation which can easily be read  and  con‐
       verted  into  various formats.  They are very helpful for checking how things work, rather
       than for a tutorial.  If you notice that more pages are missing, please try to find  addi‐
       tional information and report it as wishlist bug against this package.

       If  you  are confident with the issue, please write up a preliminary manpage and attach it
       to the bug report.  It doesn't matter if your English is bad or if you mixed up markup, as
       long  as the content can be used as source for a new manpage.  A detailed documentation on
       how to write manpages is available in man(7).

       When writing manual pages please ensure that they are  conforming  with  The  Single  UNIX
       Specification  (see  below).  Linux ought to be conforming to this specification.  Differ‐
       ences need to be documented, in additional sections, though.

MISSING PAGES
       The following is a list of missing pages sorted by section and bug  number.   If  you  can
       contribute  content  or  even  a  manual page, please send a mail to nnnnn AT bugs.org
       where nnnnn refers to the bug number from below.

   Section 3 - Library calls
       Bug#123999
              obstack_alloc(3) - allocate memory
              obstack_free(3) - free formerly allocated memory
              obstack_copy(3) - allocate block with content
              obstack_copy0(3) - allocate block with content, zero terminated
              obstack_blank(3) - increase object size
              obstack_grow(3) - increase object size with content
              obstack_grow0(3) - increase object size with content, zero term.
              obstack_1grow(3) - increase object size by 1 character
              obstack_ptr_grow(3) - increase object size by value of pointer
              obstack_int_grow(3) - increase object size by sizeof(int)
              obstack_finish(3) - finish growing of an obstack object
              obstack_object_size(3) - return the size of an obstack object
              obstack_room(3) - available room in current chunk
              obstack_1grow_fast(3) - fast increase object size by 1 character
              obstack_ptr_grow_fast(3) - fast increase object by pointer value
              obstack_int_grow_fast(3) - fast increase object size by sizeof(int)
              obstack_blank_fast(3) - fast increase object size
              obstack_base(3) - return tentative address of beginning
              obstack_next_free(3) - return address of the first free byte
              obstack_object_size(3) - return size of currently growing object
              obstack_alignment_mask(3) - alter mask assignment
              obstack_chunk_size(3) - return chunk size of given obstack
              obstack_init(3) - initialize use of an obstack

       Bug#172139
              wcstol(3) - convert a wide-character string to a long integer

       Bug#202022
              iruserok_sa(3) - routines for returning a stream to a remote command (see rcmd(3)).

       Bug#208856
              cap_set_proc(3), cap_get_proc(3) - POSIX capability manipulation on processes
              capsetp(3), capgetp(3) - Linux specific capability manipulation on  arbitrary  pro‐
              cesses

       Bug#349388
              argp_parse(3) - main interface to argp.

   Section 9 - Kernel routines
       Bug#102724
              Mandrake  seems  to  deliver section 9 manual pages, though their source is obscure
              and they do seem to be out-dated.  Nevertheless, some section 9 manpages  would  be
              nice, indeed.

       Bug#179475
              kapmd(9) - kernel APM thread
              keventd(9) - manage hotplug events
              khubd(9) - kernel USB hub daemon thread
              kjournald(9) - maintain the filesystem journal
              ksoftirqd(9) - software handling of incoming IRQs
              kswapd(9) - kernel swap daemon thread
              kupdated(9) - flush the journal
              scsi_eh(9) - kernel SCSI error handler thread

SEE ALSO
       undocumented(3), undocumented(7), man(7).
       Debian Bug Tracking System at <http://bugs.debian.org/manpages-dev>, the Single UNIX Spec‐
       ification, Version 2, at <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/toc.htm>, the Sin‐
       gle UNIX Specification, Version 3, at <http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version3/>.



Debian GNU/Linux                       December 14th, 2001                             MISSING(7)