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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:33:20 -0400
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r286103 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <CAJ5_RoAeb8_qMX3_V-E-yDTX8hJDOgoLjxo5P_eTmocMoPosRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <201507310328.t6V3S3LC087650@repo.freebsd.org> <CABh_MKm45daZPYPNFBmmkdP32sNMCtu1w33kapcouPvxcfN8_Q@mail.gmail.com> <20150731163110.GZ78154@funkthat.com> <9E180F45-B3B1-46C0-B02A-FFC3EB667A82@bsdimp.com>

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:31 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote=
:
> >
> > Do we support linking man pages between man3/man9? or should it just
> > be in a comment? and in one section?
>
> Put them in section 9 with a note saying they work for user land. There=
=E2=80=99s
> maybe
> a dozen that apply to both. We=E2=80=99ve historically not tried to share=
 them.
>

I want to say that I've seen a section 3 man page that just says "these
APIs act like their kernel counterparts; see foo(9)" .... or maybe the
other way around.  But I can't look right now.

-Ben



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