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 converted into various formats. They are very helpful for cheking 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 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. Differences 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@bugs.debian.org where nnnnn refers to the bug number from below.

  Section 3 - Library calls

Bug#43210
    getspnam(3) - get password file entry

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#126534
    signal(3), sigset(3), sighold(3), - signal management
    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#186307
    error(3) - error return value

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

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

  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
    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 <http://bugs.debian.org/manpages-dev>, the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2, at <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/>, the Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, at <http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version3/>.