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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 man
       pages  were opened for all of them through the Debian Bug Tracking Sys
       tem (BTS).  Some of these bug reports were reported upstream while some
       werent.	 Upstream,  however, is not able to create arbitrary manpages
       without additional information and additional spare time.  Hence,  its
       completely useless to simply report them upstream.

       Manpages represent an important means of documentation which can easily
       be read and converted 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 additional  information
       and report it as wishlist bug against this package.

       If you are confident with the issue, please write up a preliminary man
       page and attach it to the  bug  report.	 It  doesnt  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  conform
       ing to this specification.  Differences need to be documented, in addi
       tional sections, though.

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

   Section 2 - System calls
       Bug#235963
	      timer_create(2) - create a per-process timer

   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

       sigrelse(3), sigignore(3), sigpause(3)
	      - signal management

       Bug#147778
	      sigwait(2) - wait for queued signals

       Bug#160225
	      sem_close(3) - close a named semaphore
	      sem_destroy(3) - destroy an unnamed semaphore
	      sem_getvalue(3) - get the value of a semaphore
	      sem_init(3) - initialize an unnamed semaphore
	      sem_open(3) - initialize/open a named semaphore
	      sem_post(3) - increment the count of a semaphore
	      sem_trywait(3), sem_wait(3) - acquire or wait for a semaphore
	      sem_unlink(3) - remove a named semaphore

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

       Bug#155334
	      pthread_mutex(3) - Mutex routines for threads

       Bug#182706
	      fopencookie(3) - open stream for communicating with the cookie

       Bug#202022
	      rcmd_af(3),  rresvport_af(3),  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 processes

       Bug#235967
	      if_nametoindex(3)  - map network interface name to corresponding
	      index.

       Bug#268121
	      rpmatch(3) - determine whether a response is affirmative or neg
	      ative.

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

   Section 4 - Special files
       Bug#209323
	      pty(4) - pseudo terminal driver

   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.   Neverthe
	      less, some section 9 manpages would be nice, indeed.

       Bug#179475
	      bdflush(9) - flush buffers to disk
	      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 ,
       the  Single  UNIX  Specification,  Version  2,	at   , the Single UNIX Specification,
       Version 3, at .



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