Thank you both. Completely clarified.
On Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:51:10 AM UTC-8, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Expanding on Timothy's answer, it mean if there's a name conflict when > doing "man <name>" (e.g. with chmod(1) and chmod(2)) you can get the > specific section via "man 2 chmod". > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Timothy J Fontaine > <tjfon...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> They correspond to manpage sections >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMan_page%23Manual_sections&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEG79m0J_n0gYCdl51jW636xDMAkQ>2 >> is generally a syscall, 3 is a library call >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:54 AM, digital_thor >> <thor.b...@gmail.com<javascript:> >> > wrote: >> >>> I've been reviewing the NodeJS File System >>> page<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnodejs.org%2Fapi%2Ffs.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH47AFD82QxuVi1R9ZtwxmegyQggw> >>> and >>> am confused about the parenthetic terms (2) and (3) next to many of the >>> functions. For instance: >>> >>> - rename(2) >>> - readdir(3) >>> - unlink(2) >>> >>> Where is this nomenclature explained? Does this refer to a version of >>> POSIX or ...? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Job Board: >>> http://jobs.nodejs.org/<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.nodejs.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE-4iYDXAHW4qPQS88cJKbDd48aVA> >>> Posting guidelines: >>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjoyent%2Fnode%2Fwiki%2FMailing-List-Posting-Guidelines&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFxY8BMLEzAhSA1x_4vv-P8c4pTOQ> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: >> http://jobs.nodejs.org/<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.nodejs.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE-4iYDXAHW4qPQS88cJKbDd48aVA> >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjoyent%2Fnode%2Fwiki%2FMailing-List-Posting-Guidelines&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFxY8BMLEzAhSA1x_4vv-P8c4pTOQ> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
