[Bug manual/17172] New: man pages for unimplemented functions provoke name clash

["j dot wuttke at fz-juelich dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17172

            Bug ID: 17172
           Summary: man pages for unimplemented functions provoke name
                    clash
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: manual
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de
                CC: mtk.manpages at gmail dot com, roland at gnu dot org

A page like cerf(3), which says "not yet in glibc, as at version 2.12",
provokes a name clash if some other library provides the missing
implementation.

The rpm package managers reacts to such name clash by suggesting to uninstall
libc, which is no clever resolution.

I suggest to resolve this problem by moving man pages of unimplemented
functions to manual section 7, so that they can peacefully coexist in the
shadow of section 3 pages provided by more specific libraries.

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