On 13 December 2016 at 10:56, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils, > > OK. > >> e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same >> conclusion (or copied each other's idea) that Section 5 was the right >> place. And in the Linux man-pages we also have filesystems(5) and >> proc(5), for example. > > So, we could temporarily not ship the Debian-specific manpage, while > suggesting to the various projects mentioned that section 5 may not > have been the best place for it. (Again, just collecting suggestions, > not deciding things for anyone ;-) > > If there is no hard policy against section 9 I’d like to have > kernel-specific stuff there,
This would be Debian-specific then? > otherwise I think section 7 is at > least more appropriate than section 5 – or section 4, possibly, > but that’s “device drivers” on BSD so it doesn’t feel fully > right either, but at least it’s kernel land, whereas 7 is more > general. See my other reply. (FreeBSD) follows the same convention here as Linux... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/