Chapter 5. 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) [SUSv4]

refers to the interface named forkpty() with symbol version GLIBC_2.0 that is defined in the reference indicated by the tag SUSv4.

Note: For symbols with versions which differ between architectures, the symbol versions are defined in the architecture specific parts of of this module specification only. In the generic part, they will appear without symbol versions.