I was doing some elementary IPC programming on linux, and was looking for the man pages of the library calls that I was using in my programs (for functions like “perror”, “execlp” etc.) ‘cos its been a while since I have done anything in C. The way to get the manual page for these calls is:
kv$ man 3 “functionName”
where the number 3 specifies section number 3, which stands for library calls.
Now, it so happens that the development man pages are excluded by default in Ubuntu linux. A quick google search told me that the name of the package I was looking for is “manpages-dev.
Do:
kv$ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev
and you get the documentation for all the methods that you want!