should i have all man pages referenced by *other* man pages?

[Kai Petzke]

On Tue, 29 May 2012, sktsee wrote:

> On Tue, 29 May 2012 08:43:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>> but that disagrees with the references at the bottom of "man 7
>> pthreads":
>>
>> "... pthread_mutex_lock(3), pthread_mutex_unlock(3) ..."
>>
>> which clearly refers to the wrong section, and also doesn't mention the
>> "trylock" variation.  oh, dear, what can of worms have i opened here?
>>
>
> You also need to install the glibc-doc package.

Thank you very much for this help, which was also usefull to me.

What I find a bit strange, though, is that without the glibc-doc package, 
man pages for some of the functions from the pthreads library are 
available, like pthread_create, while man pages for other functions are 
missing, like pthread_mutex_init.

That is likely also the issue, that puzzled Robert P. J. Day initially, 
who started this thread: That some pthread docs are already there, even 
without glibc-doc, and some are not.


Greetings


Kai