From bdc08c1c6419be50edb433c4425481bdabf8a5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:15:46 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 192 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 184 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/glibc-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index d456652aa..503932016 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -1,13 +1,137 @@ - -Contents +Contents of glibc-&glibc-contversion; -The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library. +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 + +catchsegv +No description is currently available. + +gencat +gencat generates message catalogues. + +getconf +No description is currently available. + +getent +getent gets entries from an administrative database. + +glibcbug +glibcbug creates a bug report about glibc and and mails it to the +bug email address. + +iconv +iconv performs character set conversion. + +iconvconfig +iconvconfig creates fastloading iconv module +configuration file. + +ldconfig +ldconfig configures the dynamic linker run time bindings. + +ldd +ldd prints the shared libraries required by each program or shared +library specified on the command line. + +lddlibc4 +No description is currently available. + +locale +No description is currently available. + +localedef +localedef compiles locale specifications. + +mtrace +No description is currently available. + +nscd +nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name +service requests. + +nscd_nischeck +No description is currently available. + +pcprofiledump +pcprofiledump dumps information generated by +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 line. + +rpcgen +No description is currently available. + +rpcinfo +No description is currently available. + +sln +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. + +sprof +sprof reads and displays shared object profiling data. + +tzselect +tzselect asks the user for information about the current location and +outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output. + +xtrace +xtrace traces execution of program by printing the currently executed +function. + +zdump +zdump is the time zone dumper. -Description +zic +zic is the time zone compiler. -The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs. + + +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 + +ld.so +ld.so is the helper program for shared library +executables. + +libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libBrokenLocale_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libSegFault.so +No description is currently available. + +libanl.[a,so], libanl_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libbsd-compat.a +No description is currently available. + +libc.[a,so], libc_nonshared.a, libc_p.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 are already present and at the disposal of the programmer. @@ -18,9 +142,61 @@ library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not 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 +means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. The 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. +detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two +lines. + +libcrypt.[a,so], libcrypt_p.a +libcrypt is the cryptography library. + +libdl.[a,so], libdl_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libg.a +No description is currently available. + +libieee.a +No description is currently available. + +libm.[a,so], libm_p.a +libm is the mathematical library. + +libmcheck.a +No description is currently available. + +libmemusage.so +No description is currently available. + +libnsl.a, libnsl_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, +libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so + + +libpcprofile.so +No description is currently available. + +libpthread.[a,so], libpthread_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libresolv.[a,so], libresolv_p.a +No description is currently available. + +librpcsvc.a, librpcsvc_p.a +No description is currently available. + +librt.[a,so], librt_p.a +No description is currently available. + +libthread_db.so +No description is currently available. + +libutil.[a,so], libutil_p.a +No description is currently available. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf