10.7.5. Contents of EGLIBC
Short Descriptions
Can be used to create a stack trace when a program terminates with a segmentation fault | |
Generates message catalogues | |
Displays the system configuration values for file system specific variables | |
Gets entries from an administrative database | |
Performs character set conversion | |
Creates fastloading iconv module configuration files | |
Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings | |
Reports which shared libraries are required by each given program or shared library | |
Assists ldd with object files | |
Tells the compiler to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations | |
Compiles locale specifications | |
Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary in human-readable format | |
A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests | |
Dumps information generated by PC profiling | |
A helper program for grantpt to set the owner, group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal | |
Generates C code to implement the Remote Procecure Call (RPC) protocol | |
Makes an RPC call to an RPC server | |
A statically linked program that creates symbolic links | |
Reads and displays shared object profiling data | |
Asks the user about the location of the system and reports the corresponding time zone description | |
Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently executed function | |
The time zone dumper | |
The time zone compiler | |
The helper program for shared library executables | |
Used by programs, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales | |
The segmentation fault signal handler | |
An asynchronous name lookup library | |
Provides the portability needed in order to run certain Berkey Software Distribution (BSD) programs under Linux | |
The main C library | |
Used internally by EGLIBC for handling internationalized domain
names in the | |
The cryptography library | |
The dynamic linking interface library | |
A runtime library for g++ | |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) floating point library | |
The mathematical library | |
Contains code run at boot | |
Used by memusage (included in EGLIBC, but not built in a base CLFS system as it has additional dependencies) to help collect information about the memory usage of a program | |
The network services library | |
The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services, protocols, etc. | |
Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU time spent in specific source code lines | |
The POSIX threads library | |
Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers | |
Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services | |
Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension | |
Contains functions useful for building debuggers for multi-threaded programs | |
Contains code for “standard” functions used in many different Unix utilities |