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Re:Linus vs C++, again by eru on Thursday June 10, 2010 @07:03PM (#1422085)
It refers to sections of the man pages. They are organized like this:

1. General Commands

2. System Calls

3. Subroutines

4. Special Files

5. File Formats

6. Games

7. Macros and Conventions

8. Maintenence Commands

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Re:Linus vs C++, again by ramidarigaz on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:40PM (#1424065)
Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.
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Re:Linus vs C++, again by cycojesus on Saturday June 12, 2010 @04:00AM (#1425728)
and it's used like this: man 2 write
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