From 9cb6916f6984ac9e583dff481c76ec3845547cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:02:06 +0000 Subject: added glibc-shortdesc.xml, removed profiling library descs, changed order of install page (now: contents, dep, install) git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2260 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 46 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/glibc-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index 3597c7622..19425a92f 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -2,14 +2,7 @@ Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;. -Program Files - -catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, glibcbug, iconv, iconvconfig, -ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd, nscd_nischeck, -pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace, -zdump and zic - -Descriptions +Program files descriptions catchsegv catchsegv can be used to create a stack trace when a program @@ -107,38 +100,27 @@ function. -Library Files -ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libBrokenLocale_p.a, -libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so], libanl_p.a, libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], -libc_nonshared.a, libc_p.a, libcrypt.[a,so], libcrypt_p.a, libdl.[a,so], -libdl_p.a, libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libm_p.a, libmcheck.a, -libmemusage.so, libnsl.a, libnsl_p.a, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, -libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, -libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so], libpthread_p.a, libresolv.[a,so], -libresolv_p.a, librpcsvc.a, librpcsvc_p.a, librt.[a,so], librt_p.a, -libthread_db.so, libutil.[a,so] and libutil_p.a - -Descriptions +Library files descriptions ld.so ld.so is the helper program for shared library executables. -libBrokenLocale, libBrokenLocale_p +libBrokenLocale Used by software, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales. libSegFault libSegFault is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch segfaults. -libanl, libanl_p +libanl libanl is an asynchronous name lookup library. libbsd-compat libbsd-compat provides the portability needed in order to run certain programs in Linux. -libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p +libc, libc_nonshared 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 @@ -156,10 +138,10 @@ documentation that comes with the C library describes this in more detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two lines. -libcrypt, libcrypt_p +libcrypt libcrypt is the cryptography library. -libdl, libdl_p +libdl libdl is the dynamic linking interface library. libg @@ -168,7 +150,7 @@ lines. libieee libieee is the IEEE floating point library. -libm, libm_p +libm libm is the mathematical library. libmcheck @@ -178,7 +160,7 @@ lines. libmemusage is used by memusage to help collect information about the memory usage of a program. -libnsl, libnsl_p +libnsl libnsl is the network services library. libnss_compat, libnss_dns, libnss_files, @@ -197,17 +179,17 @@ GNU C library,</para></listitem> <para>Code used by the kernel to track CPU time spent in functions, source code lines, and instructions.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libpthread, libpthread_p +libpthread The POSIX threads library. -libresolv, libresolv_p +libresolv Functions in this library provide for creating, sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers. -librpcsvc, librpcsvc_p +librpcsvc Functions in this library provide miscellaneous RPC services. -librt, librt_p +librt Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension. @@ -215,7 +197,7 @@ the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension. Functions is this library are useful for building debuggers for multi-threaded programs. -libutil, libutil_p +libutil Contains code for "standard" functions used in many different Unix utilities. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf