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RELEASE The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . man-pages-3.53.tar.gz - man pages for Linux Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in the file "Changes". For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ POSIX PAGES This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages. The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate man-pages-posix package. THE PAGES These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities. [The timezone pages were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.] [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.] [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.] Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages) Section 2 = system calls Section 3 = libc calls Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs) Section 6 = games (intro only) Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc. Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages) This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel. Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, or suggest improvments to existing pages, please visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ . Copyright information: These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution). If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages, these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email address, and copyright notice.