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man page for write system call

Asked by Karthik. B

How can i get the man page for write() system call? When i issue command "man write" its displaying man page for another one which is showing "its is used to send message to another user".

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Best Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) said : 		#1

$ man 2 write

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Michael Bienia (geser) said : 		#2

And the package "manpages-dev" should be installed (I don't know if it's installed by default).

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Karthik. B (karthik-bhuvana) said : 		#3

Thanks Diogo Matsubara, that solved my question.