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| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | index.xml | 4 |
4 files changed, 37 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml b/appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml index 317bc8153..07a9ec71c 100644 --- a/appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ filesystems</para></sect4> file system.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>mk_cmds</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The mk_cmds utility takes a command table file as input and produces +a C source file as output which is intended to be used with the subsystem +library, libss.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>mke2fs and mkfs.ext2</title> <para>mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device @@ -89,19 +91,21 @@ libuuid.[a,so]</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Descriptions</title> <sect4><title>libcom_err</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The common error display routine.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libe2p</title> <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libext2fs</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The ext2fs library is designed to allow user-level programs to +manipulate an ext2 filesystem.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libss</title> <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libuuid</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers for +objects that may be accessible beyond the local system.</para></sect4> </sect3> diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index 25eebcd4c..75b630f10 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -177,32 +177,44 @@ lines.</para></sect4> memory usage of a program.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libnsl, libnsl_p</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>libnsl is the network services library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libnss_compat, libnss_dns, libnss_files, libnss_hesiod, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The basic idea is to put the implementation of the different services +offered to access the databases in separate modules. This has some +advantages:</para> +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>Contributors can add new services without adding them to +GNU C Library.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>The modules can be updated separately.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>The C library image is smaller.</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist></sect4> <sect4><title>libpcprofile</title> <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libpthread, libpthread_p</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>The POSIX threads library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libresolv, libresolv_p</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>Functions in this library provide for creating, sending, and +interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>librpcsvc, librpcsvc_p</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>Functions in this library provide miscellaneous RPC services.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>librt, librt_p</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces specified by +the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libthread_db</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<para>Functions is this library are useful for building debuggers for +multi-threaded programs.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libutil, libutil</title> -<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4> +<sect4><title>libutil, libutil_p</title> +<para>Contains code for "standard" functions used in many different unix +utilities.</para></sect4> </sect3> diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 08e38ddde..170f253ec 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some +descriptions.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some +more descriptions.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info chown).</para></listitem> @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml"> -<!ENTITY version "20020517"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "May 17th, 2002"> +<!ENTITY version "20020518"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "May 18th, 2002"> <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> <!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> |