[KLUG Members] Online C API reference for Linux "MSDN-like"

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:59 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Is there a good online reference for C API's in Linux sort of like MSDN where
> you can navigate by topic, get functions listed, descriptions, headers to
> include, etc...?
> TIA!

<rant>Ha! You've got to be kidding right?  Aren't developers *BORN* with
an in-depth understanding of glibc, System v RPC, and BSD sockets?
Which I took to mean I'm not one and why I avoid having to program in C.
You need an entire bookcase of manuals to program in C (on UNIX): the
core language, glibc (that is THREE volumes and none of them svelt),
books for every widget set (if not more than one), a book on programming
for TCP/IP, a book for threads, a book for IPC, and we are only getting
warmed up.  Then if you want to do something crazy like, say,
*PRINT* ..... haven't found that book yet.  I would have been lost if I
hadn't started on AIX - which had manuals (23 volumes, many over 1,000
pages).

This is one of the reasons I immediately loved .NET - IT IS FRIGGIN'
DOCUMENTED!  I want to do something new with a date I just go into
"monodoc" and search for "System.DateTime";  and there are the notes,
the constructors, the methods, the properties, etc.... wonderful stuff.
And if monodoc doesn't know enough I can go to ......(drum rolllll).....
MSDN!  They have mountains of information, links to related information,
examples, etc....  Really amazing,  you can spend more time coding than
you spend googling for some hint as to how to do something.</rant>

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