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diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml deleted file mode 100644 index f541a70ed..000000000 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> - -<para><command>catchsegv</command> can be used to create a stack trace -when a program terminates with a segmentation fault.</para> - -<para><command>gencat</command> generates message catalogues.</para> - -<para><command>getconf</command> displays the system configuration values -for file system specific variables.</para> - -<para><command>getent</command> gets entries from an administrative -database.</para> - -<para><command>glibcbug</command> creates a bug report and mails it to the -bug email address.</para> - -<para><command>iconv</command> performs character set conversion.</para> - -<para><command>iconvconfig</command> creates fastloading iconv module -configuration file.</para> - -<para><command>ldconfig</command> configures the dynamic linker runtime -bindings.</para> - -<para><command>ldd</command> reports which shared libraries are required -by each given program or shared library.</para> - -<para><command>lddlibc4</command> assists ldd with object files.</para> - -<para><command>locale</command> is a Perl program that tells the compiler -to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para> - -<para><command>localedef</command> compiles locale specifications.</para> - -<para><command>mtrace</command>...</para> - -<para><command>nscd</command> is a name service cache daemon providing a -cache for the most common name service requests.</para> - -<para><command>nscd_nischeck</command> checks whether or not secure mode -is necessary for NIS+ lookup.</para> - -<para><command>pcprofiledump</command> dumps information generated by -PC profiling.</para> - -<para><command>pt_chown</command> is a helper program for grantpt to set -the owner, group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal.</para> - -<para><command>rpcgen</command> generates C code to implement the -RPC protocol.</para> - -<para><command>rpcinfo</command> makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para> - -<para><command>sln</command> is used to make symbolic links. The program -is statically linked, so it is useful for making symbolic links to dynamic -libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason is nonfunctional.</para> - -<para><command>sprof</command> reads and displays shared object profiling -data.</para> - -<para><command>tzselect</command> asks the user about the location of the -system and reports the corresponding time zone description.</para> - -<para><command>xtrace</command> traces the execution of a program by -printing the currently executed function.</para> - -<para><command>zdump</command> is the time zone dumper.</para> - -<para><command>zic</command> is the time zone compiler.</para> - -<para><command>ld.so</command> is the helper program for shared library -executables.</para> - -<para><command>libBrokenLocale</command> is used by programs, such as -Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para> - -<para><command>libSegFault</command> is a segmentation fault signal -handler. It tries to catch segfaults.</para> - -<para><command>libanl</command> is an asynchronous name lookup -library.</para> - -<para><command>libbsd-compat</command> provides the portability needed -in order to run certain BSD programs under Linux.</para> - -<para><command>libc</command> is the main C library -- a collection of -commonly used functions.</para> - -<para><command>libcrypt</command> is the cryptography library.</para> - -<para><command>libdl</command> is the dynamic linking interface library.</para> - -<para><command>libg</command> is a runtime library for g++.</para> - -<para><command>libieee</command> is the IEEE floating point library.</para> - -<para><command>libm</command> is the mathematical library.</para> - -<para><command>libmcheck</command> contains code run at boot.</para> - -<para><command>libmemusage</command> is used by memusage to help collect -information about the memory usage of a program.</para> - -<para><command>libnsl</command> is the network services library.</para> - -<para><command>libnss*</command> are the Name Service Switch libraries, -containing functions for resolving host names, user names, group names, -aliases, services, protocols,and the like.</para> - -<para><command>libpcprofile</command> contains profiling functions used -to track the amount of CPU time spent in which source code lines.</para> - -<para><command>libpthread</command> is the POSIX threads library.</para> - -<para><command>libresolv</command> contains functions for creating, -sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para> - -<para><command>librpcsvc</command>contains functions providing -miscellaneous RPC services.</para> - -<para><command>librt</command> contains functions providing most of the -interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para> - -<para><command>libthread_db</command> contains functions useful for -building debuggers for multi-threaded programs.</para> - -<para><command>libutil</command> contains code for "standard" functions -used in many different Unix utilities.</para> - -</sect2> - |