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| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | index.xml | 4 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 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> diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 7548e2e62..b5cd2bd78 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the +missing descriptions.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem> @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml"> -<!ENTITY version "20020507"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "May 7th, 2002"> +<!ENTITY version "20020509"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "May 9th, 2002"> <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> <!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> |