8.5.3. Contents of Glibc
Short Descriptions
Generates message catalogues |
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Displays the system configuration values for file system specific variables |
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Gets entries from an administrative database |
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Performs character set conversion |
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Creates fastloading iconv module configuration files |
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Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings |
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Reports which shared libraries are required by each given program or shared library |
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Assists ldd with object files. It does not exist on newer architectures like x86_64 |
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Prints various information about the current locale |
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Compiles locale specifications |
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Creates a simple database from textual input |
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Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary in human-readable format |
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A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests |
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Dump information generated by PC profiling |
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Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes |
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A statically linked ln program |
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Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command |
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Reads and displays shared object profiling data |
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Asks the user about the location of the system and reports the corresponding time zone description |
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Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently executed function |
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The time zone dumper |
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The time zone compiler |
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The helper program for shared library executables |
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Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken
programs (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See
comments in |
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Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
asynchronous name lookup library, whose functions are now
in |
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The main C library |
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Turns on memory allocation checking when preloaded |
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Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
dynamic linking interface library, whose functions are
now in |
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Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime library for g++ |
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The mathematical library |
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The vector math library, linked in as needed when
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Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to |
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Used by memusage to help collect information about the memory usage of a program |
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The network services library, now deprecated |
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The Name Service Switch modules, containing functions for
resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases,
services, protocols, etc. Loaded by |
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Can be preloaded to PC profile an executable |
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Dummy library containing no functions. Previously
contained functions providing most of the interfaces
specified by the POSIX.1c Threads Extensions and the
semaphore interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Real-time
Extensions, now the functions are in |
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Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers |
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Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions |
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Contains functions useful for building debuggers for multi-threaded programs |
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Dummy library containing no functions. Previously
contained code for “standard”
functions used in many different Unix utilities. These
functions are now in |