stdarg(3)

What does this notation mean?

printf(1), asprintf(3), dprintf(3), scanf(3), setlocale(3), wcrtomb(3), wprintf(3), locale(5)

That notation means "numeric parameter."

>>2

I see it on linux man pages and some other sites

here is another example http://linux.die.net/man/7/packet

You ffucking retards shit . It's the section of the man ual that it is from. ... 1 programs , 2 syscalls, 3 non syscall std library .... Etc

Page number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page

It's the section of the manual. Compare e.g. "man 1 write", documenting the utility /usr/bin/write, versus "man 2 write", documenting the C function write() in <unistd.h>.

"man man" for a section listing:

       1   Executable programs or shell commands
       2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
       3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
       4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
       5   File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
       6   Games
       7   Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
       8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]

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