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32.Dd May 1, 2021
33.Dt INTRO 7
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm intro
37.Nd miscellaneous information pages
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39This section contains miscellaneous documentation, including:
40.Bl -tag -width "kernel_sanitizers(7)" -offset indent
41.It Xr ascii 7
42map of ASCII character set
43.It Xr c 7
44the C programming language
45.It Xr entropy 7
46random unpredictable secrets needed for security
47.It Xr environ 7
48user environment
49.It Xr glob 7
50shell-style pattern matching
51.\" .It Sy eqnchar
52.\" special character definitions for eqn
53.It Xr groups 7
54standard
55.Nx
56group names
57.It Xr hier 7
58file system hierarchy in
59.Nx
60.It Xr hostname 7
61host name resolution description
62.It Xr kernel_sanitizers 7
63bug detection features in the
64.Nx
65kernel
66.It Xr mailaddr 7
67mail addressing description
68.\" .It Sy man
69.\" macros to typeset manual pages
70.It Xr mdoc 7
71macros for typesetting
72.Nm \-mdoc
73style manual pages
74.It Xr mdoc.samples 7
75tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
76.Nm \-mdoc
77.\" .It Sy \&me
78.\" macros for formatting papers
79.\" .It Sy \&ms
80.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
81.It Xr module 7
82kernel modules
83.It Xr nls 7
84overview of national language support
85.It Xr npf 7
86.Nx
87Packet Filter
88.It Xr operator 7
89C operator precedence and order of evaluation
90.It Xr orders 7
91orders of magnitude
92.It Xr pkgsrc 7
93the
94.Nx
95packages collection
96.It Xr release 7
97layout of
98.Nx
99releases and snapshots
100.It Xr rfc6056 7
101udp port randomization algorithms
102.It Xr script 7
103how interpreter scripts are executed
104.It Xr security 7
105security features available in
106.Nx
107.It Xr setuid 7
108checklist for security and setuid programs
109.It Xr signal 7
110available signals under
111.Nx
112.It Xr src 7
113layout of the
114.Nx
115source tree
116.It Xr sticky 7
117sticky bit
118.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
119handling
120.It Xr symlink 7
121symbolic link handling
122.It Xr sysctl 7
123system information variables in
124.Nx
125.It Xr tests 7
126.Nx
127test suite
128.\" .It Sy term
129.\" conventional names for terminals
130.It Xr users 7
131standard
132.Nx
133user account names
134.El
135.Sh HISTORY
136The
137.Nm intro
138manual page appeared in
139.Bx 4.2 .
140