From 2c094d60db777dce20fd4eccf4996299c2a0dfe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Bauscher Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:08:29 +0000 Subject: 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 --- appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/glibc-desc.xml') 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. pt_chown 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. rpcgen @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ line. rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server. sln -sln symbolically links dest to source. It is statically linked, -needing no dynamic linking at all. Thus sln is useful to make symbolic +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. @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ segfaults. programs in Linux. libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p -These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a +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. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf