[04a3351] | 1 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[978d0bf] | 3 | <para><command>catchsegv</command> can be used to create a stack trace
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| 4 | when a program terminates with a segmentation fault.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 5 |
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[978d0bf] | 6 | <para><command>gencat</command> generates message catalogues.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 7 |
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[978d0bf] | 8 | <para><command>getconf</command> displays the system configuration values
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[ab3b93b] | 9 | for file system specific variables.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 10 |
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[978d0bf] | 11 | <para><command>getent</command> gets entries from an administrative
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| 12 | database.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 13 |
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[978d0bf] | 14 | <para><command>glibcbug</command> creates a bug report and mails it to the
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| 15 | bug email address.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 16 |
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[978d0bf] | 17 | <para><command>iconv</command> performs character set conversion.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 18 |
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[978d0bf] | 19 | <para><command>iconvconfig</command> creates fastloading iconv module
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| 20 | configuration file.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 21 |
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[978d0bf] | 22 | <para><command>ldconfig</command> configures the dynamic linker runtime
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| 23 | bindings.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 24 |
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[978d0bf] | 25 | <para><command>ldd</command> reports which shared libraries are required
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| 26 | by each given program or shared library.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 27 |
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[978d0bf] | 28 | <para><command>lddlibc4</command> assists ldd with object files.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 29 |
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[978d0bf] | 30 | <para><command>locale</command> is a Perl program that tells the compiler
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| 31 | to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 32 |
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[978d0bf] | 33 | <para><command>localedef</command> compiles locale specifications.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 34 |
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[978d0bf] | 35 | <para><command>mtrace</command>...</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 36 |
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[978d0bf] | 37 | <para><command>nscd</command> is a name service cache daemon providing a
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| 38 | cache for the most common name service requests.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 39 |
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[978d0bf] | 40 | <para><command>nscd_nischeck</command> checks whether or not secure mode
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| 41 | is necessary for NIS+ lookup.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 42 |
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[978d0bf] | 43 | <para><command>pcprofiledump</command> dumps information generated by
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| 44 | PC profiling.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 45 |
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[978d0bf] | 46 | <para><command>pt_chown</command> is a helper program for grantpt to set
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| 47 | the owner, group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 48 |
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[978d0bf] | 49 | <para><command>rpcgen</command> generates C code to implement the
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| 50 | RPC protocol.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 51 |
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[978d0bf] | 52 | <para><command>rpcinfo</command> makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 53 |
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[978d0bf] | 54 | <para><command>sln</command> is used to make symbolic links. The program
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| 55 | is statically linked, so it is useful for making symbolic links to dynamic
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| 56 | libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason is nonfunctional.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 57 |
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[978d0bf] | 58 | <para><command>sprof</command> reads and displays shared object profiling
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| 59 | data.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 60 |
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[978d0bf] | 61 | <para><command>tzselect</command> asks the user about the location of the
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| 62 | system and reports the corresponding time zone description.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 63 |
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[978d0bf] | 64 | <para><command>xtrace</command> traces the execution of a program by
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| 65 | printing the currently executed function.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 66 |
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[978d0bf] | 67 | <para><command>zdump</command> is the time zone dumper.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 68 |
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[978d0bf] | 69 | <para><command>zic</command> is the time zone compiler.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 70 |
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[978d0bf] | 71 | <para><command>ld.so</command> is the helper program for shared library
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| 72 | executables.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <para><command>libBrokenLocale</command> is used by programs, such as
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| 75 | Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para><command>libSegFault</command> is a segmentation fault signal
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| 78 | handler. It tries to catch segfaults.</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <para><command>libanl</command> is an asynchronous name lookup
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| 81 | library.</para>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <para><command>libbsd-compat</command> provides the portability needed
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| 84 | in order to run certain BSD programs under Linux.</para>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <para><command>libc</command> is the main C library -- a collection of
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| 87 | commonly used functions.</para>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <para><command>libcrypt</command> is the cryptography library.</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <para><command>libdl</command> is the dynamic linking interface library.</para>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <para><command>libg</command> is a runtime library for g++.</para>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <para><command>libieee</command> is the IEEE floating point library.</para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para><command>libm</command> is the mathematical library.</para>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <para><command>libmcheck</command> contains code run at boot.</para>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | <para><command>libmemusage</command> is used by memusage to help collect
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| 102 | information about the memory usage of a program.</para>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <para><command>libnsl</command> is the network services library.</para>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <para><command>libnss*</command> are the Name Service Switch libraries,
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| 107 | containing functions for resolving host names, user names, group names,
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| 108 | aliases, services, protocols,and the like.</para>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <para><command>libpcprofile</command> contains profiling functions used
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| 111 | to track the amount of CPU time spent in which source code lines.</para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <para><command>libpthread</command> is the POSIX threads library.</para>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <para><command>libresolv</command> contains functions for creating,
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| 116 | sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para><command>librpcsvc</command>contains functions providing
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| 119 | miscellaneous RPC services.</para>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <para><command>librt</command> contains functions providing most of the
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| 122 | interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <para><command>libthread_db</command> contains functions useful for
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| 125 | building debuggers for multi-threaded programs.</para>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <para><command>libutil</command> contains code for "standard" functions
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| 128 | used in many different Unix utilities.</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 129 |
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[6370fa6] | 130 | </sect2>
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