On 12/16/2016 02:37 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware >>> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting >>> page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora >> >> Yes. >> >>>> The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it >>>> covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem). >>> >>> Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux. >> >> Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD. > > At least "man man" (aka man(1)) on Debian says: > > 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time, there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages project. No one updated them or added new one in > 15 years, and I deleted them years ago, as being out-of-date and useless. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
