From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 7:49: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38B437B416 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:49:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9]) by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22702; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:49:11 +0100 Message-ID: <3BFBCC1B.485ED1DD@resfeber.se> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:45:31 +0100 From: Jon Molin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man page question References: <200111211032.AA1632108746@florida-wireless.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it's the section, i think this is the general form: 1 - Commands 2 - System services and error numbers 3 - User-level library functions 4 - Device drivers, protocols, and network interfaces 5 - File formats used or read by various programs 6 - Games and demos 7 - Miscellaneous useful information pages 8 - System maintenance and operation commands you call them with 'man 2 symlink' and 'man 7 symlink' /Jon brain_damaged wrote: > > hello, > what does the (2) or (7) mean or refer to ? > > SEE ALSO > link(2), lstat(2), readlink(2), stat(2), symlink(2), symlink(7) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message