# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2024-06-01 06:00+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: TH #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "libc" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: archlinux debian-unstable opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "2024-05-02" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: archlinux debian-unstable #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages 6.8" msgstr "" #. type: SH #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "NAME" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "libc - overview of standard C libraries on Linux" msgstr "" #. type: SH #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "DESCRIPTION" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "The term \\[lq]libc\\[rq] is commonly used as a shorthand for the " "\\[lq]standard C library\\[rq] a library of standard functions that can be " "used by all C programs (and sometimes by programs in other languages). " "Because of some history (see below), use of the term \\[lq]libc\\[rq] to " "refer to the standard C library is somewhat ambiguous on Linux." msgstr "" #. type: SS #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "glibc" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "By far the most widely used C library on Linux is the E<.UR http://www.gnu." "org\\:/software\\:/libc/> GNU C Library E<.UE ,> often referred to as " "I. This is the C library that is nowadays used in all major Linux " "distributions. It is also the C library whose details are documented in the " "relevant pages of the I project (primarily in Section 3 of the " "manual). Documentation of glibc is also available in the glibc manual, " "available via the command I. Release 1.0 of glibc was made in " "September 1992. (There were earlier 0.x releases.) The next major release " "of glibc was 2.0, at the beginning of 1997." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "The pathname I (or something similar) is normally a " "symbolic link that points to the location of the glibc library, and " "executing this pathname will cause glibc to display various information " "about the version installed on your system." msgstr "" #. type: SS #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "Linux libc" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "In the early to mid 1990s, there was for a while I, a fork of " "glibc 1.x created by Linux developers who felt that glibc development at the " "time was not sufficing for the needs of Linux. Often, this library was " "referred to (ambiguously) as just \\[lq]libc\\[rq]. Linux libc released " "major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5, as well as many minor versions of those " "releases. Linux libc4 was the last version to use the a.out binary format, " "and the first version to provide (primitive) shared library support. Linux " "libc 5 was the first version to support the ELF binary format; this version " "used the shared library soname I. For a while, Linux libc was " "the standard C library in many Linux distributions." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "However, notwithstanding the original motivations of the Linux libc effort, " "by the time glibc 2.0 was released (in 1997), it was clearly superior to " "Linux libc, and all major Linux distributions that had been using Linux libc " "soon switched back to glibc. To avoid any confusion with Linux libc " "versions, glibc 2.0 and later used the shared library soname I." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "Since the switch from Linux libc to glibc 2.0 occurred long ago, I no longer takes care to document Linux libc details. Nevertheless, " "the history is visible in vestiges of information about Linux libc that " "remain in a few manual pages, in particular, references to I and " "I." msgstr "" #. type: SS #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "Other C libraries" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "There are various other less widely used C libraries for Linux. These " "libraries are generally smaller than glibc, both in terms of features and " "memory footprint, and often intended for building small binaries, perhaps " "targeted at development for embedded Linux systems. Among such libraries " "are E<.UR http://www\\:.uclibc\\:.org/> I E<.UE ,> E<.UR http://" "www\\:.fefe\\:.de/\\:dietlibc/> I E<.UE ,> and E<.UR http://www\\:." "musl-libc\\:.org/> I E<.UE .> Details of these libraries are " "covered by the I project, where they are known." msgstr "" #. type: SH #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "SEE ALSO" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide #: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed msgid "" "B(2), B(3), B(5), B(7), " "B(7), B(7), B(7)" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: debian-bookworm opensuse-leap-15-6 #, no-wrap msgid "2023-02-05" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: debian-bookworm #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages 6.03" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron #, no-wrap msgid "2023-10-31" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: fedora-40 mageia-cauldron #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages 6.06" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: fedora-rawhide #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages 6.7" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: opensuse-leap-15-6 #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages 6.04" msgstr "" #. type: TH #: opensuse-tumbleweed #, no-wrap msgid "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" msgstr ""