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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2004-01-16 19:42:00
subject: [C] An interesting question

Hi Pascal.

15-Jan-04 00:47:56, Pascal Schmidt wrote to Roy J. Tellason

 PS>>> man 3 dlopen
 RJT>> Is it necessary in general to specify the number in there?
 PS> For dlopen it doesn't make any difference, but some library
 PS> functions have the same name as user commands (for example, man
 PS> printf doesn't give you the description of the printf C function),
 PS> so I just play it safe all the time

Have you memorized which calls are documented in section 2 (system calls)
and which in documented in section 3 (library functions)

eg unlink is in section 2, and remove is in section 3...

 -=> Bye <=-

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