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  1. <sect2><title>Contents of Glibc</title>
  2. <para>(Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;.)</para>
  3. <para>Glibc is the C library that provides the system calls and basic
  4. functions such as open, malloc, printf, etc. The C library is used by all
  5. dynamically linked programs.</para>
  6. <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: catchsegv, gencat, getconf,
  7. getent, glibcbug, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale,
  8. localedef, mtrace, nscd, nscd_nischeck, pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen,
  9. rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace, zdump and zic</para>
  10. <para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so],
  11. libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so], libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libc_nonshared.a,
  12. libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so], libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a,
  13. libmemusage.so, libnsl.a, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so,
  14. libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so,
  15. libpthread.[a,so], libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so
  16. and libutil.[a,so]</para>
  17. </sect2>