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to: Jasen Betts
from: Pascal Schmidt
date: 2004-01-18 15:17:54
subject: [C] An interesting question

Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> Have you memorized which calls are documented in section 2 (system 
 JB> calls) and which in documented in section 3 (library functions)
 JB> eg unlink is in section 2, and remove is in section 3...
Well, if nothing comes up in section 3, I try 2 as well, but most of the
time I know which ones are syscalls and which are library functions. There
are only relatively few syscall that one needs to use directly, however.

Ciao
Pascal

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