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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Syscalls and associated purpose defined
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:11:17 -0500
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On Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:58:16 PM EST warron.french wrote:
> Does anyone know of an up-to-date document on Linux system calls and their
> associated purposes defined (in plain English)?
> 
> For example, defining *unlink *and *unlinkat*?
> 
> I found this document,
> http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/qrc/linux%20system%20call%20quick%20r
> eference.pdf, but it is not up to date and doesn't really define the system
> call's purpose - at least to my level of understanding.

We have always considered the man pages to be the ultimate source of 
information. You may have use the number 2 occassinally when there are 
programs with the same name. For example, "man 2 write".

-Steve