[schilytools] man page sections

Friedhelm Mehnert lists at friedhelms.net
Sat Sep 10 19:36:00 CEST 2022


On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 06:54:43PM +0200, Robert Clausecker wrote:
 
> Solaris never had different sections and did not switch their ordering.
> The only addition is that SunOS has subsections for items specific to
> certain components of the system.  This convention is used by other
> software, too.
> 
The change happened with Solaris 11.4.

The chages were:

   1M > 8
   4 > 5
   5 > 7
   7 > 4.

See: 

   blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/normalizing-man-page-section-numbers-in-solaris-114

I slowly get fed up with beeing told that I am wrong. I very well make my homework
before I go ahead and state something.

Best Regards
Friedhelm



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