On Sunday 22 August 2004 05:26, David L Norris wrote: >On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 23:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> My problem is that I don't recall ever having seen a document >> that defines what the various manpage 'chapters' as you call >> them, are supposed to represent. > >Here's an overview of the traditional UNIX System Manual: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_manual > > >Here is a breakdown of the LDP system manual from the man-pages >documentation: > > Section 0p = POSIX headers > Section 1p = POSIX utilities > Section 3p = POSIX functions > > Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by > FSF) Section 2 = system calls > Section 3 = libc calls > Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) > Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, >nfs) > Section 6 = games (intro only) > Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc. > Section 8 = system administration (intro only) > > Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these > should be distributed with the binaries they are written for. > Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of > the kernel. > > Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 > contains several hundred man pages. Thank you very much Dave. Printed for posterity, whomever that is. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
