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