1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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4 |
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5 | <para>(Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;.)</para>
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6 |
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7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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8 |
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9 | <para><command>catchsegv</command> can be used to create a stack trace
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10 | when a program terminates with a segmentation fault.</para>
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11 |
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12 | <para><command>gencat</command> generates message catalogues.</para>
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13 |
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14 | <para><command>getconf</command> displays the system configuration values
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15 | for filesystem specific variables.</para>
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16 |
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17 | <para><command>getent</command> gets entries from an administrative
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18 | database.</para>
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19 |
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20 | <para><command>glibcbug</command> creates a bug report and mails it to the
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21 | bug email address.</para>
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22 |
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23 | <para><command>iconv</command> performs character set conversion.</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para><command>iconvconfig</command> creates fastloading iconv module
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26 | configuration file.</para>
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27 |
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28 | <para><command>ldconfig</command> configures the dynamic linker runtime
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29 | bindings.</para>
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30 |
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31 | <para><command>ldd</command> reports which shared libraries are required
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32 | by each given program or shared library.</para>
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33 |
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34 | <para><command>lddlibc4</command> assists ldd with object files.</para>
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35 |
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36 | <para><command>locale</command> is a Perl program that tells the compiler
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37 | to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para>
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38 |
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39 | <para><command>localedef</command> compiles locale specifications.</para>
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40 |
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41 | <para><command>mtrace</command>...</para>
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42 |
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43 | <para><command>nscd</command> is a name service cache daemon providing a
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44 | cache for the most common name service requests.</para>
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45 |
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46 | <para><command>nscd_nischeck</command> checks whether or not secure mode
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47 | is necessary for NIS+ lookup.</para>
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48 |
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49 | <para><command>pcprofiledump</command> dumps information generated by
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50 | PC profiling.</para>
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51 |
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52 | <para><command>pt_chown</command> is a helper program for grantpt to set
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53 | the owner, group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal.</para>
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54 |
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55 | <para><command>rpcgen</command> generates C code to implement the
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56 | RPC protocol.</para>
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57 |
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58 | <para><command>rpcinfo</command> makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para>
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59 |
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60 | <para><command>sln</command> is used to make symbolic links. The program
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61 | is statically linked, so it is useful for making symbolic links to dynamic
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62 | libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason is nonfunctional.</para>
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63 |
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64 | <para><command>sprof</command> reads and displays shared object profiling
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65 | data.</para>
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66 |
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67 | <para><command>tzselect</command> asks the user about the location of the
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68 | system and reports the corresponding time zone description.</para>
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69 |
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70 | <para><command>xtrace</command> traces the execution of a program by
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71 | printing the currently executed function.</para>
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72 |
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73 | <para><command>zdump</command> is the time zone dumper.</para>
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74 |
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75 | <para><command>zic</command> is the time zone compiler.</para>
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76 |
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77 | </sect3>
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78 |
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79 | <sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
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80 |
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81 | <para><command>ld.so</command> is the helper program for shared library
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82 | executables.</para>
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83 |
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84 | <para><command>libBrokenLocale</command> is used by programs, such as
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85 | Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para>
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86 |
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87 | <para><command>libSegFault</command> is a segmentation fault signal
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88 | handler. It tries to catch segfaults.</para>
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89 |
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90 | <para><command>libanl</command> is an asynchronous name lookup
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91 | library.</para>
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92 |
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93 | <para><command>libbsd-compat</command> provides the portability needed
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94 | in order to run certain BSD programs under Linux.</para>
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95 |
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96 | <para><command>libc</command> is the main C library -- a collection of
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97 | commonly used functions.</para>
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98 |
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99 | <para><command>libcrypt</command> is the cryptography library.</para>
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100 |
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101 | <para><command>libdl</command> is the dynamic linking interface library.</para>
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102 |
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103 | <para><command>libg</command> is a runtime library for g++.</para>
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104 |
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105 | <para><command>libieee</command> is the IEEE floating point library.</para>
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106 |
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107 | <para><command>libm</command> is the mathematical library.</para>
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108 |
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109 | <para><command>libmcheck</command> contains code run at boot.</para>
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110 |
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111 | <para><command>libmemusage</command> is used by memusage to help collect
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112 | information about the memory usage of a program.</para>
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113 |
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114 | <para><command>libnsl</command> is the network services library.</para>
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115 |
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116 | <para><command>libnss*</command> are the Name Service Switch libraries,
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117 | containing functions for resolving host names, user names, group names,
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118 | aliases, services, protocols,and the like.</para>
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119 |
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120 | <para><command>libpcprofile</command> contains profiling functions used
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121 | to track the amount of CPU time spent in which source code lines.</para>
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122 |
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123 | <para><command>libpthread</command> is the POSIX threads library.</para>
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124 |
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125 | <para><command>libresolv</command> contains functions for creating,
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126 | sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para>
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127 |
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128 | <para><command>librpcsvc</command>contains functions providing
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129 | miscellaneous RPC services.</para>
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130 |
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131 | <para><command>librt</command> contains functions providing most of the
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132 | interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para>
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133 |
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134 | <para><command>libthread_db</command> contains functions useful for
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135 | building debuggers for multi-threaded programs.</para>
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136 |
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137 | <para><command>libutil</command> contains code for "standard" functions
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138 | used in many different Unix utilities.</para>
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139 |
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140 | </sect3>
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141 |
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142 | </sect2>
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143 |
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