(Sorry, don't have email addresses for these people.)
sretzki interesting, one of the biggest problems I have with
plan9 is that functions in manpages are handled as
normal words, instead of e.g. postfixing every function
with ()
but I guess that is just me and personal taste
fgb ah, yes
I think it's because the manuals are intended to be
printed too
sretzki Well, it is not that awfull, most times, it is clear.
There is no such English word like "alloctree". Just
that they are capitalized at the start of sentences,
but you look at the prototype at the beginning of the
manpage, anyway
it becomes interesting if the function is a valid English
word, like "respond" in 9p(2) :)
If you read the pages with man -P, which shows you the typeset
version, these names will be in italics, which should make them
easier for you to recognize as function names. The manual is,
as fgb and man(1) point out, intended to be typeset.
equuelus which file(s) do i need to include when i want to use
memcpy in the kernel, tried #include "libc.h", but
that didn't work. anyideas?
Use memmove instead, which has the same definition on all systems.
See memory(3):
BUGS
ANSI C does not require memcpy to handle overlapping source
and destination; on Plan 9, it does, so memmove and memcpy
behave identically.
Russ
