Changeset 227d26b

Timestamp:

05/09/2002 05:50:36 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

65824097

Parents:

1de0682

Message:

filled in missing glibc descriptions

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1875 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• appendixa/glibc-desc.xml (modified) (7 diffs)
• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• index.xml (modified) (1 diff)

appendixa/glibc-desc.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
 
 <sect4><title>catchsegv</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>catchsegv can be used to create a stack trace when a program
+terminates with a segmentation fault.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gencat</title>
@@ -17 +18 @@
 
 <sect4><title>getconf</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>getconf displays the system configuration values for filesystem
+specific variables.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>getent</title>
@@ -44 +46 @@
 
 <sect4><title>locale</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>locale is a Perl program which tells the compiler to enable
+(or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>localedef</title>
@@ -50 +53 @@
 
 <sect4><title>mtrace</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>mtrace prints the multicast path from a source to a receiver (an IP
+trace query).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>nscd</title>
@@ -57 +61 @@
 
 <sect4><title>nscd_nischeck</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>nscd_nischeck checks whether or not secure mode is necessary for
+NIS+ lookup.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pcprofiledump</title>
@@ -67 +72 @@
 slave pseudo terminal corresponding to the master pseudo terminal passed 
 on file descriptor `3'.  This is the helper program for the `grantpt' 
-function.  It is not intended to be run directly 
-from the command line.</para></sect4>
+function.  It is not intended to be run directly from the command
+line.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rpcgen</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>rpcgen generates C code to implement the RPC protocol.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rpcinfo</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sln</title>
@@ -119 +124 @@
 
 <sect4><title>libBrokenLocale, libBrokenLocale_p</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>Used by software, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libSegFault</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>libSegFault is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch
+segfaults.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libanl, libanl_p</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para>libanl is an asynchronous name lookup library.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libbsd-compat</title>

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -27 +27 @@
 
 </para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
+missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the

index.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 
-<!ENTITY version "20020507">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "May 7th, 2002">
+<!ENTITY version "20020509">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "May 9th, 2002">
 
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">