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Chapter 6. Documentation Conventions

Throughout this document, the following typographic conventions are used:

function()

the name of a function

command

the name of a command or utility

CONSTANT

a constant value

parameter

a parameter

variable

a variable

Throughout this specification, several tables of interfaces are presented. Each entry in these tables has the following format:

name

the name of the interface

(symver)

An optional symbol version identifier, if required.

[refno]

A reference number indexing the table of referenced specifications that follows this table.

For example,

forkpty(GLIBC_2.0) [1]

refers to the interface named forkpty() with symbol version GLIBC_2.0 that is defined in the first of the listed references below the table.

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