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Update mdoc.samples(7) to reflect that section 9 is a valid man page

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section.  Update some descriptions of the various sections to
reflect that they are valid for section 9 man pages.  Add a table
of section numbers and what they are used for.
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Mike Pritchard 1999-06-24 00:18:46 +00:00
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)mdoc.samples.7 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
.\" $Id: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.16 1997/12/08 07:44:20 charnier Exp $
.\" $Id: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.17 1998/12/03 03:38:45 jkoshy Exp $
.\"
.\" This tutorial sampler invokes every macro in the package several
.\" times and is guaranteed to give a worst case performance
@ -458,17 +458,17 @@ in
\&.Sh DESCRIPTION
\&.\e" The following requests should be uncommented and
\&.\e" used where appropriate. This next request is
\&.\e" for sections 2 and 3 function return values only.
\&.\e" for sections 2, 3 and 9 function return values only.
\&.\e" .Sh RETURN VALUES
\&.\e" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
\&.\e" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7, 8 & 9 only
\&.\e" .Sh ENVIRONMENT
\&.\e" .Sh FILES
\&.\e" .Sh EXAMPLES
\&.\e" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
\&.\e" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7, 8 & 9 only
\&.\e" (command return values (to shell) and
\&.\e" fprintf/stderr type diagnostics)
\&.\e" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
\&.\e" The next request is for sections 2 and 3 error
\&.\e" The next request is for sections 2, 3 and 9 error
\&.\e" and signal handling only.
\&.\e" .Sh ERRORS
\&.\e" .Sh SEE ALSO
@ -525,9 +525,26 @@ subject of the man page and must be in
.Tn CAPITALS
due to troff
limitations.
The section number may be 1,\ ...,\ 8,
The section number may be 1,\ ...,\ 9,
and if it is specified,
the volume title may be omitted.
.Pp
Under
.Tn FreeBSD ,
the following section numbers and their descriptions are described below:
.Pp
.Bl -column SMM -offset indent -compact
.It Li 1 FreeBSD General Commands Manual
.It Li 2 FreeBSD System Calls Manaul
.It Li 3 FreeBSD Library Calls Manual
.It Li 4 FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual
.It Li 5 FreeBSD File Formats Manual
.It Li 6 FreeBSD Games Manual
.It Li 7 FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual
.It Li 8 FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
.It Li 9 FreeBSD Kernel Developers Guide
.El
.Pp
A volume title may be arbitrary or one of the following:
.\" .Cl
.\" USD UNIX User's Supplementary Documents
@ -1363,7 +1380,7 @@ to be either a section page number or punctuation.
Any
remaining arguments are assumed to be punctuation.
.Pp
.Dl Usage: .Xr man_page [1,...,8] \*(Pu
.Dl Usage: .Xr man_page [1,...,9] \*(Pu
.Bl -tag -width ".Xr mdoc 7 ) ) ," -compact -offset 14n
.It Li \&.Xr mdoc
.Xr mdoc
@ -1662,7 +1679,7 @@ will generate the following text:
.Pp
The
.Fl std
option is valid only for manual page sections 2 and 3.
option is valid only for manual page sections 2, 3 and 9.
.Ss Trade Names (or Acronyms and Type Names)
The trade name macro is generally a small caps macro for
all upper case words longer than two characters.
@ -1986,7 +2003,7 @@ Credits, if need be, should be placed here.
Diagnostics from a command should be placed in this section.
.It \&.Sh ERRORS
Specific error handling, especially from library functions
(man page sections 2 and 3) should go here.
(man page sections 2, 3 and 9) should go here.
The
.Ql \&.Er
macro is used to specify an errno.