Solaris 10 man(1M)_ System Administration Command

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The following contains a brief description of each section in the man pages and

the information it references:

Section 1 describes, in alphabetical order, commands available with the

operating system.

Section 1M describes, in alphabetical order, commands that are used chiefly

for system maintenance and administration purposes.

Section 2 describes all of the system calls. Most of these calls have one or

more error returns. An error condition is indicated by an otherwise

impossible returned value.

for the file formats are given where applicable.

Section 5 contains miscellaneous documentation such as character set tables,

etc.

Section 6 contains available games and demos.

Section 7 describes various special files that refer to specific hardware

peripherals, and device drivers.

STREAMS software drivers, modules and the

STREAMS-generic set of system calls are also described.

Section 9 provides reference information needed to write device drivers in

the kernel operating systems environment. It describes two device driver

information between the driver and the kernel.

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information about man pages in general.

NAME

This section gives the names of the commands or functions documented,

followed by a brief description of what they do.

arguments next, unless a different argument order is required.

The following special characters are used in this section:

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that the command or interface is applicable for the hardware platform specified.

the command being described on the manual page. In order to use the

command, the specified package must have been installed with the operating

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