Man-pages-ru

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Man-pages-ru

Translation man-pages in to Russian.

• project page on Transifex
• project page on SourceForge
• mailing list

About the project

Structure of man-pages

The man-pages sections are traditionally defined as follows:

• man1 - Commands (Programs) - Those commands that can be executed by the user from within a shell.
• man2 - System calls - Those functions which must be performed by the kernel.
• man3 - Library calls - Most of the libc functions.
• man4 - Special files (devices) - Files found in /dev.
• man5 - File formats and conventions - The format for /etc/passwd and other human-readable files.
• man6 - Games
• man7 - Conventions and miscellaneous - Overviews of various topics, conventions and protocols, character set standards, and miscellaneous other things.
• man8 - System management commands - Commands like mount(8), many of which only root can execute.