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Don't use die.net! The manpages there were last updated 10+ years ago. It's very unfortunate that that site does so well on Google.


In this case it doesn't matter much I think. I suppose the api existed for ages.

But I prefer openbsd or man7 pages, sure.


Is there a better man page site to use instead? I abhor reading in the terminal.


Linux: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/

Debian: https://manpages.debian.org/

Ubuntu: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/

FreeBSD: https://man.freebsd.org/

OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/


Archlinux also now has a manpage viewer

https://man.archlinux.org/

Useful if you need to see the manpage of a very recent version of a package.


man7.org is "official" (linked from kernel.org)

This page there: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/hsearch.3.html


Never knew this about man7, thank you.


What's the difference between reading letters and digits on a webpage, and reading them in a terminal?


Scroll behavior, for starters.


Obviously it is none of my business how people read their manpages, but on the off chance this may be useful to you:

    export LESS='--mouse --wheel-lines=3'


You mean that you can't scroll in the terminal, or?


Mankier is nice if you like fancy formatting

https://www.mankier.com/1/qemu


The documentation pages for FreeBSD include manual pages, for example

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hcreate&manpath=Fr...


The only other one I'm aware of is Ubuntu manuals: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/


Not only that, but I've been having lots of problems with Cloudflare lately. How much of the internet do they provide service for? Good grief...




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