Hi, read() is a system call. If you check 'man man', system calls are documented in section 2, while library functions like fread are in section 3. Thanks, Stefan. On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I saw fread is on section 3, but should read really be 3? It's not a > kernel function directly I think. Perhaps the numbering is just > historical? > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man2/read.2.html > > Best regards, Jon > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
