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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C-Execute-Command
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.010349.2810@virtech.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 89 01:03:49 GMT
References: <1989Dec2.161237.23913@virtech.uucp> <2615@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <1103891355263101@thelake.UUCP>
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In article <1103891355263101@thelake.UUCP>, steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) writes:
> 1. On the net, I often see (non-code) references to functions with numbers
>    inside the parens, as in system(3) and exec(2). None of the
>    documentation I have uses these numbers. What do they mean, and where
>    do they come from?

These are manual section pages from most UNIX manual sets.

	1		- programs
	1m       	- SYSV: system administration programs
	2		- system calls.
	3*		- library functions
	4		- BSD: special files
			  SYSV: file formats
	5		- BSD: file formats
			  SYSV: miscellany
	6		- games
	7		- SYSV: special files
	8		- BSD: system administration programs



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