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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by Aloisius on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @10:24PM (#43840548)
But the man page section tells you which one is is a a kernel syscall (2) and which is a C library function (3)...
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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by Joker_vD on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:14PM (#43840895)
Which is the universally known convention everyone is born with inherent knowledge of. Also, people read man-pages.
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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by Aloisius on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:05AM (#43841157)
What person diving into their shell's source code on Linux doesn't read manpages? Or even man's manpage at least once?
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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by Joker_vD on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @02:21AM (#43841835)
Daniel Huang, the one that wrote TFA? People are different, I don't know what else to tell you. But generally, people don't read man pages or docs.
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