On Tuesday 11 January 2005 23:51, yakoub abaya wrote:
> when doing man read (for example ) i get
> in that last line , the usual "see also " comment
> where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2)
>
> Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (--> 2 in write(2) )
>
This is the section of the man pages to which this man page belongs. The
sections are:
<<<
Section 1
User Commands
Section 2
System Calls
Section 3
Subroutines
Section 4
Devices
Section 5
File Formats
Section 6
Games
Section 7
Miscellaneous
Section 8
System Administration
Section 9
Kernel
Section n
New
>>>
> if i do man write it doesn't show info about c language write command
> so i suppose the number in the parentheses is useful
>
> Q : how do i man write(2) ? , hwo do i use the 2 ?
>
man 2 write
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Shlomi Fish
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