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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-28 21:08:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-28 21:08:29 +0000 |
| commit | 2c094d60db777dce20fd4eccf4996299c2a0dfe0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6059aa8ca1a67a6e974f8802b9af66a7330272a4 /appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | |
| parent | f5cc1c171ba0c9aece1fe1046ce4dbaed8850e9f (diff) | |
Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index 37f849aaa..3597c7622 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ PC profiling.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>pt_chown</title> <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 +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> <sect4><title>rpcgen</title> @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ line.</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, -needing no dynamic linking at all. Thus sln is useful to make symbolic +<para>sln symbolically links dest to source. It is statically linked, +needing no dynamic linking at all. Thus sln is useful to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason is nonfunctional.</para></sect4> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ segfaults.</para></sect4> programs in Linux.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p</title> -<para>These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a +<para>These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs. This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every single task. The most common things like writing a string to the screen @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.</para> a dynamic and a static one. In short, when a program uses a static C library, the code from the C library is copied into the executable file. When a program uses a dynamic library, the executable will not -contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads +contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. The documentation that comes with the C library describes this in more |