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Re: [Groff] Section 9 manpages
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Ruslan Ermilov |
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Re: [Groff] Section 9 manpages |
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Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:39:12 +0300 |
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:12:36AM +0200, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> A bit less offtopic: it also seems the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects
> reserve the section 9 for kernel-related manpages.
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Actually, both section 4 and section 9 supply kernel-related manpages,
but in different angles. Section 9 documents the kernel API, useful
for kernel developers, and section 4 documents kernel device drivers
and other subsystems, and how userland can access them.
Cheers,
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