Throughout this document, the following typographic conventions are used:
function()
the name of a function
the name of a command or utility
CONSTANT
a constant value
a parameter
a variable
Throughout this specification, several tables of interfaces are presented. Each entry in these tables has the following format:
the name of the interface
An optional symbol version identifier, if required.
A reference number indexing the table of referenced specifications that follows this table.
For example,
refers to the interface namedforkpty
with symbol version GLIBC_2.0
that is defined in the
first of the listed references below the table.