filled in missing glibc descriptions

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1875 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
index f12369ddb..1f8bc9341 100644
--- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml
@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ zdump and zic</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>catchsegv</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>catchsegv can be used to create a stack trace when a program
+terminates with a segmentation fault.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gencat</title>
 <para>gencat generates message catalogues.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>getconf</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>getconf displays the system configuration values for filesystem
+specific variables.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>getent</title>
 <para>getent gets entries from an administrative database.</para></sect4>
@@ -43,20 +45,23 @@ library specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
 <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>locale</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>locale is a Perl program which tells the compiler to enable
+(or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>localedef</title>
 <para>localedef compiles locale specifications.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mtrace</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>mtrace prints the multicast path from a source to a receiver (an IP
+trace query).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>nscd</title>
 <para>nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
 service requests.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>nscd_nischeck</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>nscd_nischeck checks whether or not secure mode is necessary for
+NIS+ lookup.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pcprofiledump</title>
 <para>pcprofiledump dumps information generated by 
@@ -66,14 +71,14 @@ PC profiling.</para></sect4>
 <para>pt_chown sets the owner, group and access permission of the
 slave pseudo terminal corresponding to the master pseudo terminal passed 
 on file descriptor `3'.  This is the helper program for the `grantpt' 
-function.  It is not intended to be run directly 
-from the command line.</para></sect4>
+function.  It is not intended to be run directly from the command
+line.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rpcgen</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>rpcgen generates C code to implement the RPC protocol.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rpcinfo</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sln</title>
 <para>sln symbolically links dest to source.  It is statically linked,
@@ -118,13 +123,14 @@ libthread_db.so, libutil.[a,so] and libutil_p.a</para></sect3>
 executables.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libBrokenLocale, libBrokenLocale_p</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>Used by software, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libSegFault</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>libSegFault is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch
+segfaults.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libanl, libanl_p</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>libanl is an asynchronous name lookup library.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libbsd-compat</title>
 <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>