Re: Documentation for /dev/tun

From: Karel Kulhavy
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 04:33:03 EST


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:44:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>
> > I have /dev/tun on my system and would like to read documentation about
> > it. Because I already know that /dev/ttyS0 has manual page under man
> > ttyS, I typed man tun No manual entry for tun also info tun No menu item
> > `tun' in node `(dir)Top'. I also tried "tun" and "/dev/tun" at Wikipedia
> > and they have nothing.
>
> Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
> drivers/net/tun.c is quite easy to read too.

Why is man ttyS present and man tun missing? Is there any rule which says
which devices should have manpage and which not?

CL<
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> JiKos.
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