apropos_replacement | GSoC Project for NetBSD

apropos_replacement is a C library. apropos_replacement has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

linux support: recently i started work on porting this code to gnu/linux. i have been successfully able to build it on ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and the code is available in the linux branch of this repository. introduction unix systems have had a culture and one of the main reasons behind the long standing success of unix has been to follow this culture and philosophy over the years. part of this culture and philosophy is to provide documentation for each component of the operating system, whether it is a command line utility, a system call, a library function, a configuration file or anything that should be documented to make the life of the end user easier. this documentation has been primarly shipped in the form of manual pages (man pages in short), which can be easily accessed using the 'man' command. a couple of utilities are also provided to search the documentation easily. apropos(1) can be used to search for man pages. how apropos(1) works is very simple. the name section of the man pages has been indexed in a file (typically named whatis.db) and apropos(1) performs search on this file for the keywords specified by the user. while apropos(1) was designed keeping in mind the resources (both hardware and software) available during the early days, but things have changed drastically over the