On 12/16/2016 02:40 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: > >>>>> The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it >>>>> covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem). >>>> >>>> Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux. >>> >>> Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD. >> >> At least "man man" (aka man(1)) on Debian says: >> >> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] >> >> The according file comes from the package man-db. > > Hmm. So we could conceivably move the manpage about the > tmpfs filesystem to section 9 as a Debian-local patch > (since upstream appears to prefer to not have such a > section), and then all will be good™.
Is there already something in Section 9 on Debian? -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
