[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

>>> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems.
>>> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5).
>>
>> But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them
>> to section 7 (general concepts), though.
>
> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils,
> 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.

Actually, other operating systems also seemed to come to the same
conclusion. For FreeBSD, I see the following in Section 5:

$ ls -1 *fs.5
autofs.5
devfs.5
ext2fs.5
fdescfs.5
fs.5
linprocfs.5
linsysfs.5
mqueuefs.5
msdosfs.5
nandfs.5
nullfs.5
procfs.5
tmpfs.5

Note the last!

Cheers,

Michael



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Michael Kerrisk
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