geom_<name>(4) vs g<name>(8)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 21/09/2011 23:54 Lev Serebryakov said the following:
> Hello, Andriy.
> You wrote 21 сентября 2011 г., 23:45:25:
> 
>> Section 4 is kernel drivers.
>> Section 8 is userland system management utilities.
>> Man pages for driver and related utilities should be cross-referenced but they
>> don't have to be the same one page.
>   Yes, I understand that.
>> Or did you mean something else?
>   I mean, that there is geom_fox(4) and, say, geom_map(4), but no
> geom_mirror(4), only gmirror(8).
>   Why here is no gfox(8) is clear -- here is no such utility (what is
> strange enough, but it is topic of other thread). But why here is no
> geom_mirror(4) is not clear for me (Ok, one reason could be because
> nobody write such man page, but see below about it hypothetical
> content).
> 
>    And, as information in gmirror(8) will duplicate information in
> (hypothetical) geom_mirror(4) (as they both describe same object,
> really), it could be one page, found by two names.
> 
>   NB: geom_mirror is only example, here are A LOT of such modules with
> their configuration utilities.

This makes sense to me.  Thank you for the explanation.

-- 
Andriy Gapon