On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware > that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting > page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora
Yes. > > The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it > > covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem). > > Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux. Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD. > 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. Just collecting ideas, currently. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
