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<para>Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;.</para>
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-<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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-<para>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, glibcbug, iconv, iconvconfig,
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-ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd, nscd_nischeck,
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-pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
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-zdump and zic</para></sect3>
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-
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-<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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+<sect3><title>Program files descriptions</title>
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<sect4><title>catchsegv</title>
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<para>catchsegv can be used to create a stack trace when a program
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@@ -107,38 +100,27 @@ function.</para></sect4>
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</sect3>
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-<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
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-<para>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libBrokenLocale_p.a,
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-libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so], libanl_p.a, libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so],
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-libc_nonshared.a, libc_p.a, libcrypt.[a,so], libcrypt_p.a, libdl.[a,so],
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-libdl_p.a, libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libm_p.a, libmcheck.a,
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-libmemusage.so, libnsl.a, libnsl_p.a, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so,
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-libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so,
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-libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so], libpthread_p.a, libresolv.[a,so],
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-libresolv_p.a, librpcsvc.a, librpcsvc_p.a, librt.[a,so], librt_p.a,
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-libthread_db.so, libutil.[a,so] and libutil_p.a</para></sect3>
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-
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-<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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+<sect3><title>Library files descriptions</title>
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<sect4><title>ld.so</title>
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<para>ld.so is the helper program for shared library
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executables.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libBrokenLocale, libBrokenLocale_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libBrokenLocale</title>
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<para>Used by software, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libSegFault</title>
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<para>libSegFault is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch
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segfaults.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libanl, libanl_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libanl</title>
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<para>libanl is an asynchronous name lookup library.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libbsd-compat</title>
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<para>libbsd-compat provides the portability needed in order to run certain
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programs in Linux.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared</title>
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<para>These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a
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collection of commonly used functions in programs.
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This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every
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@@ -156,10 +138,10 @@ documentation that comes with the C library describes this in more
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detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two
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lines.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libcrypt, libcrypt_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libcrypt</title>
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<para>libcrypt is the cryptography library.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libdl, libdl_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libdl</title>
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<para>libdl is the dynamic linking interface library.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libg</title>
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@@ -168,7 +150,7 @@ lines.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libieee</title>
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<para>libieee is the IEEE floating point library.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libm, libm_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libm</title>
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<para>libm is the mathematical library.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libmcheck</title>
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@@ -178,7 +160,7 @@ lines.</para></sect4>
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<para>libmemusage is used by memusage to help collect information about the
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memory usage of a program.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libnsl, libnsl_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libnsl</title>
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<para>libnsl is the network services library.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>libnss_compat, libnss_dns, libnss_files,
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@@ -197,17 +179,17 @@ GNU C library,</para></listitem>
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<para>Code used by the kernel to track CPU time spent in functions, source
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code lines, and instructions.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libpthread, libpthread_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libpthread</title>
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<para>The POSIX threads library.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libresolv, libresolv_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libresolv</title>
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<para>Functions in this library provide for creating, sending, and
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interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>librpcsvc, librpcsvc_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>librpcsvc</title>
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<para>Functions in this library provide miscellaneous RPC services.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>librt, librt_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>librt</title>
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<para>Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces specified by
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the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para></sect4>
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@@ -215,7 +197,7 @@ the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para></sect4>
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<para>Functions is this library are useful for building debuggers for
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multi-threaded programs.</para></sect4>
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-<sect4><title>libutil, libutil_p</title>
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+<sect4><title>libutil</title>
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<para>Contains code for "standard" functions used in many different Unix
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utilities.</para></sect4>
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Gerard Beekmans