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| <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel">kernel</a> |
| and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. |
| With respect to the C library, the primary focus is the |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_1.html">1: <em>User commands</em></a>; <em>man-pages</em> includes a very few Section 1 pages that |
| document programs supplied by the GNU C library. |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html">2: <em>System calls</em></a> |
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| provided by the Linux kernel. |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_3.html">3: <em>Library functions</em></a> |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_4.html">4: <em>Devices</em></a> |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_5.html">5: <em>Files</em></a> |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html">proc(5)</a>, |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_7.html">7: <em>Overviews, |
| conventions, and miscellaneous</em></a>. |
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| <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_8.html">8: |
| <em>Superuser and system administration commands</em></a>; |
| <em>man-pages</em> includes a very few Section 8 pages, |
| mainly documenting programs supplied by the GNU C library. |
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