Man Page Section Renumbering

In Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4, man pages using the System V sections have been renumbered to the standard sections. The sections 1m, 4, 5, 7, and their subsections used in the previous releases are now 8, 5, 7, 4, and their subsections respectively. Users who are familiar with other platforms such as BSD, Linux, or MacOS X can use the same section numbers with the man command.

In addition, the libschost.so.1(1) man page has been recategorized as section 3lib.

The man command can map the old System V section numbers to the standard ones when necessary, to help find references from older documentation.

For more information about all man page enhancements, see man Command Enhancements in What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 and the man(1) man page.