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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-09 12:41:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-09 13:21:32 +0100 |
| commit | 961b7403617bd2baba68069ed2da506ae22ed27f (patch) | |
| tree | a2f57e9bc7870d8e5250633fa564c1bf165719c2 | |
| parent | e5fbb0bfed19d15e4a89fdd2b90263faae20a909 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-961b7403617bd2baba68069ed2da506ae22ed27f.tar.gz | |
libc.7: Add a note on why glibc 2.x uses the soname libc.so.6
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/libc.7 | 3 |
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diff --git a/man7/libc.7 b/man7/libc.7 index 8d02379517..05809e65bf 100644 --- a/man7/libc.7 +++ b/man7/libc.7 @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ 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 +.IR libc.so.6 . Since this switch occurred long ago, .I man-pages no longer takes care to document Linux libc details. |