RELEASE

The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .

    man-pages-4.15.tar.gz - man pages for Linux

Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in

the file "Changes".

For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

POSIX PAGES

This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003

man pages.  The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate

man-pages-posix package.

THE PAGES

These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages

for Linux.  A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands

that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages

in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.

[The timezone pages were taken from

ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]

[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from

ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]

[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]

Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:

    Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)

    Section 2 = system calls

    Section 3 = libc calls

    Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)

    Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)

    Section 6 = games (intro only)

    Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc.

    Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)

    This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages

    because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written

    for.  Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of

    the kernel.

    Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains

    several hundred man pages.  If you want to write some man pages,

    or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit

    http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .

Copyright information:

    These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses.

    Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources

    contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other

    requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the

    raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).

    If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your

    responsibility to figure out your obligations.  (For many man pages,

    these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any

    pre-formatted man pages that you provide.)  Each file that contains

    nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email

    address, and copyright notice.