What does the “3am” section means in manpages?
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I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
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I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
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I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
asked 2 days ago
Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
285213
I found this accidentally.
I just typed man fork, and instead of showing the system call documentation, it showed to me an awk extension, however, the section page number was 3am, instead of just 3.
What does 3am means?
man
man
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Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
285213
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Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
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Peregring-lkPeregring-lk
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
2 days ago
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My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
yesterday
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
2 days ago
2
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
yesterday
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
2 days ago
'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
2 days ago
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My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
yesterday
My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
yesterday
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
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Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
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Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
add a comment |
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It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
It appears to be the manual page for a GNU Awk (gawk) extension module. The complete list is:
$ find /usr/share/man/man3 -name '*3am*' | xargs dpkg -S
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readfile.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/inplace.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/ordchr.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revoutput.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/readdir.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/filefuncs.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/revtwoway.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/time.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/rwarray.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fork.3am.gz
gawk: /usr/share/man/man3/fnmatch.3am.gz
I would guess the am stands for awk module.
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
37.6k45389
answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
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answered 2 days ago
steeldriversteeldriver
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37.6k45389
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In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
add a comment |
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate forgawklibraries, whereasfork()is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.
– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes likecpp,sslorperl.
– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
1
1
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate for
gawk libraries, whereas fork() is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
In general, section 3 of the manual contains entries for library calls, which seems appropriate for
gawk libraries, whereas fork() is carried out by the kernel and is therefore documented in section 2.– Kusalananda♦
2 days ago
2
2
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes like
cpp, ssl or perl.– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
Yeah it seems that some libraries or "man page extensions" adds a postfix to the man page section number. In my system I've some prefixes like
cpp, ssl or perl.– Peregring-lk
2 days ago
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'Read it very early in the morning'.
– bmargulies
2 days ago
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My first thought was something like unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/…
– Justin Lardinois
yesterday