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passwd(4) -- Password files
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A passwd file is a file consisting of records separated by newline characters, one record per user, containing seven colon (:) separated fields. These fields are as follows: User's login name. The de... |
patterns(4) -- Patterns for use with internationalization tools
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The patterns file contains the patterns that must be matched for the internationalization tools extract, strextract, and strmerge. The pattern file in the following example is the default patterns fil... |
pax(4) -- Archive file format
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The cpio, pax, and tar commands dump several files into one, in a medium suitable for transportation. This file is often referred to as a tar file, or tar tape, since it was originally designed to be ... |
pdsc(4) -- Defines structures describing procedures conforming to the Calling Standard for Alpha Systems .
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The pdsc.h header file defines two basic data structures: the code range descriptor (crd) and the run-time procedure descriptor (rpd). Code range descriptors associate a contiguous sequence of address... |
Permissions(4) -- Contains information about the permissions that remote computers have with respect to login, file ac...
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The /usr/lib/uucp/Permissions file contains information about the ways in which the remote computers listed in the Systems file are allowed to carry out uucico and uuxqt transactions with a local syst... |
phones(4) -- File containing the remote host phone number database
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This file is normally unreadable, and so may contain privileged information. The format of the file is a series of lines of the form: systemname phone-number where systemname is defined in the /etc/re... |
Poll(4) -- Contains information specifying when the UNIX-toUNIX Copy Program (UUCP) should poll designated remo...
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The /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file contains information for polling remote computers. Each entry in the Poll file contains the name of a remote computer to call, followed by a character, and a sequence... |
prestotab(4) -- Lists the file systems for Prestoserve to accelerate
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The /etc/prestotab file contains descriptive information about the mounted file systems whose I/O will be automatically accelerated with Prestoserve when the system starts up. This file is created by ... |
printcap(4) -- Printer capability data base
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The printcap file is used to describe printer characteristics. The format of the printcap file is a simplified version of the /etc/termcap database format. The lpd line printer daemon accesses the /et... |
proc(4) -- The process (/proc) file system and associated ioctl requests
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The /proc file system is layered beneath the Virtual File System (VFS). It is a pseudo-file system that occupies no disk space. The /proc pseudo-file system appears to contain files, but these are act... |
processor_sets(4) -- Collections of processors
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A processor set is a collection of processors. When a processor set is first created, it does not contain any processors. You can add processors to a processor set, remove processors from a processor ... |
procset(4) -- Send a signal to one or more processes
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The contents of the structure define a set of target processes based on logical operations performed on the two sets of potential target processes indicated by the two pairs of id + type p... |
proplist(4) -- The storing, parsing, and retrieving of Extended File Attributes
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Tru64 UNIX supports the storing, parsing, and retrieving of Extended File Attributes. An Extended File Attribute is a name and value pair that is contained in a variablesized structure called a Proper... |