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diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index efab5b49..04e05b87 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" 2007-05-30 created by mtk, using text from old man.7 plus .\" rewrites and additional text. .\" -.TH MAN-PAGES 7 2013-01-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MAN-PAGES 7 2013-02-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME man-pages \- conventions for writing Linux man pages .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ man-pages \- conventions for writing Linux man pages .SH DESCRIPTION This page describes the conventions that should be employed when writing man pages for the Linux \fIman-pages\fP project, -which comprises Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Linux manual pages. +which documents the user-space API provided by the Linux kernel +and the GNU C library. +The project thus provides most of the pages in Section 2, +as well as many of the pages that appear +in Sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the man pages on a Linux system. The conventions described on this page may also be useful for authors writing man pages for other projects. .SS Sections of the Manual Pages |