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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
April 27, 2010 03:10
Subject:
Re: Broken pod links
Message ID:
z2z51dd1af81004270310wc26b374ft33ba184aec3c71cc@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:07, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 17:39, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> some without, like 'printf' or 'printf(3)'.  Should these even be in L<>
>>> tags?  Is there software somewhere that would link these to the real man
>>> pages?
>>
>> Pod::Simple does. See perl5130delta for a (broken) example of this.
>> All manpages should be linked with L<foo(num)>.
>>
> What about "fsync(3c)"  Should the "c" be removed?

No, 3c is a valid section on systems that have them, i.e. you'd do
"man 3c fsync" on the command line, and the page is presumably in a
man3c directory.

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