guide (trunk) Documentation missing for several Tcl extenstions (pextlib1.0)

[febeling@…]

Many of the Pextlib commands are undocumented, among them prominent ones like "system".

system
flock
readdir
strsed
mkstemp
mktemp
md5
fs-traverse
filemap
rpm-vercomp
rmd160
sha1
compat
umask
sudo
mkfifo
unixsocketpair
mkchannelfromfd
pipe
curl
symlink
unsetenv
readline
rl_history
getuid
geteuid
getgid
getegid
setuid
seteuid
setgid
setegid
name_to_uid
uid_to_name
name_to_gid
gid_to_name
tracelib

See the definition of the extension here:

​http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.c#L1167

The list is compiled by copying those minus the ones which actually are documented here in the guide.

​http://guide.macports.org/#reference.tcl-extensions

Not sure if some of these should stay undocumented because they are rather implementation detail or "private", but most look quite generally applicable.

The related list discussion was this:

​http://www.mail-archive.com/macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org/msg05179.html

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Milestone Website & Documentation deleted

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I was bitten by fs-traverse not being documented in #38555

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Also since these are Tcl procs, it would be useful to have manpages for them in section "n" of the manual like the rest of the Tcl manpages, so that I could just do:

man n fs-traverse

to find out about fs-traverse, for example.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

markd has retired. See #44782.