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Aloisius
on April 30, 2025
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Path Isn't Real on Linux
But the man page section tells you which one is is a a kernel syscall (2) and which is a C library function (3)...
Joker_vD
on April 30, 2025
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Which is the universally known convention everyone is born with inherent knowledge of. Also, people read man-pages.
Aloisius
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What person diving into their shell's source code on Linux doesn't read manpages? Or even man's manpage at least once?
Joker_vD
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Daniel Huang, the one that wrote TFA? People are different, I don't know what else to tell you. But generally, people don't read man pages or docs.
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