Timeline for What do the numbers in a man page mean?
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Kevin |
"Miscellaneous" primarily means "broad information about an entire subsystem or generic Unix feature rather than a particular API endpoint." See for example pipe(7), tcp(7) (and several other networking man pages), pthreads(7), boot(7), regex(7), etc. There's other stuff in section 7 as well, such as ascii(7) (ASCII table) and man(7) (how to write a man page) but the broad docs pages are by far the most useful things in section 7 in my experience.
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| Feb 10, 2018 at 18:51 | comment | added | Rolf | More stuff from the 70ies, indeed. I thought it was from the 80ies. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 3:17 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated broken link to cm.bell-labs.com
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| Oct 29, 2010 at 13:39 | history | answered | KeithB | CC BY-SA 2.5 |