Man pages present, utilities absent? ("at" "talk" others?) [Solved]

Hi,
I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm gonna post it here.
I've got man page entries from certain utiilities from the posix programmers manual, like "at" and "talk" but these utilities aren't actually installed,
I've searched the pacman repository and I'm not actually sure these utilities are even provided as a package at all.
Is there something that I can use like "at"? (besides crontabs)
Also, is this worth filing a bug report over? (I searched the bugs list, I didn't find anything matching this description, although I only tried searching for "man pages" and "posix", and only checked the first page for "man pages".
There's also some problems with viewing certain man-pages, like that dhcpcd man page where some of the characters are garbled, but I think this is probably a known bug relating to the switchover to UTF-8 as the standard locale.
Thanks
Last edited by pseudonomous (2008-10-08 23:30:57)

The pkg 'man-pages' is directly taken from http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/, which is funded by the Linux Foundation. You can see in the link that this pkg provides man pages for system-calls, glibc lib functions, device-files, file-formats and section 7 (miscellanea).
Each pkg (e.g. util-linux-ng) is supposed to provide it's own manual pages. The 'POSIX programmer manuals' are provided to document the fact that how should these utilities behave or be implemented (if somebody wants to implement them...). This doesn't mean that these utilities are installed (they may be if their pkg is installed).
Hope it helps !!
P.S. POSIX is a *nix standardization effort.
Last edited by Onwards (2009-01-17 18:35:11)

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void sub_a(void );
void sub_b(void );
void sub_c(void );
void sub_d(void );
void sub_e(void );
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void *status;
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if(thr_join(thr_e,(thread_t *)&ret_thr, &status))
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ret_thr, (int) status);
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for (i=0;i<1000000*(int)thr_self();i++);
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thr_exit((void *)55);
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thread_t ret_thr;
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while (1) {
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# /emc/smithr15/solthread
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rc = -1Can't create thr_b
rc = -1#
Any ideas as to what -1 indicates and how to solve this?
Thanks for your response,
dedham_ma_man

ok, my bad. I wasn't linking in the -lthread library.
Thanks anyway.

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