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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/execve.2 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/ptrace.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/clock_getres.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/getopt.3 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/malloc.3 | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/posix_memalign.3 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/setlocale.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strptime.3 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/wprintf.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/charsets.7 | 2 |
11 files changed, 21 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2 index f1b94c244f..856fe0cdab 100644 --- a/man2/execve.2 +++ b/man2/execve.2 @@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ If the executable is a dynamically linked ELF executable, the interpreter named in the PT_INTERP segment is used to load the needed shared libraries. This interpreter is typically -\fI/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fR for binaries linked with the Linux libc -version 5, or \fI/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fR for binaries linked with the -GNU libc version 2. +\fI/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fR for binaries linked with the +Linux libc 5, or \fI/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fR for binaries linked with the +glibc 2. All process attributes are preserved during an .BR execve (), diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2 index 02e1283322..e40cc26362 100644 --- a/man2/ptrace.2 +++ b/man2/ptrace.2 @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ SVr4, 4.3BSD Although arguments to .BR ptrace () are interpreted according to the prototype given, -GNU libc currently declares +glibc currently declares .BR ptrace () as a variadic function with only the \fIrequest\fP argument fixed. This means that unneeded trailing arguments may be omitted, diff --git a/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 index 745e3edc31..9dbee709bc 100644 --- a/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 +++ b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The entities and .I sizeof(wchar_t) are totally unrelated. -In the GNU libc, +In glibc, .B MB_LEN_MAX is typically 6 while .I sizeof(wchar_t) diff --git a/man3/clock_getres.3 b/man3/clock_getres.3 index 8f51ba9de0..078dc63d44 100644 --- a/man3/clock_getres.3 +++ b/man3/clock_getres.3 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ More clocks may be implemented. The interpretation of the corresponding time values and the effect on timers is unspecified. .LP -Sufficiently recent versions of GNU libc and the Linux kernel +Sufficiently recent versions of glibc and the Linux kernel support the following clocks: .TP .B CLOCK_REALTIME diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3 index a70a4d56b2..f7e38e43a1 100644 --- a/man3/getopt.3 +++ b/man3/getopt.3 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ is treated as the long option .B \-W option is reserved by POSIX.2 for implementation extensions.) This behavior is a GNU extension, not available with libraries before -GNU libc 2. +glibc 2. .PP By default, .BR getopt () @@ -288,11 +288,11 @@ argument is encountered. .B _<PID>_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_ This variable was used by .BR bash (1) -2.0 to communicate to GNU libc which arguments are the results of +2.0 to communicate to glibc which arguments are the results of wildcard expansion and so should not be considered as options. This behavior was removed in .BR bash (1) -version 2.01, but the support remains in GNU libc. +version 2.01, but the support remains in glibc. .SH "CONFORMING TO" .TP .BR getopt (): diff --git a/man3/malloc.3 b/man3/malloc.3 index d7e296213d..fe4159b084 100644 --- a/man3/malloc.3 +++ b/man3/malloc.3 @@ -150,9 +150,10 @@ or are almost always related to heap corruption, such as overflowing an allocated chunk or freeing the same pointer twice. .PP -Recent versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and GNU libc (2.x) -include a malloc implementation which is tunable via environment -variables. +Recent versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and glibc (2.x) +include a +.BR malloc () +implementation which is tunable via environment variables. When .BR MALLOC_CHECK_ is set, a special (less efficient) implementation is used which diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3 index c231ef4569..1f82fc7fda 100644 --- a/man3/posix_memalign.3 +++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3 @@ -187,11 +187,12 @@ and then align the obtained value). .\" .IR free (3), .\" but not to .\" .IR realloc (3). -GNU libc allows memory obtained from any of these three routines to be +The glibc implementation +allows memory obtained from any of these three routines to be reclaimed with .BR free (3). -GNU libc +The glibc .BR malloc (3) always returns 8-byte aligned memory addresses, so these routines are only needed if you require larger alignment values. diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 index efe5891707..13e24cdc55 100644 --- a/man3/setlocale.3 +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ The return value is NULL if the request cannot be honored. .SH "CONFORMING TO" C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. .SH NOTES -Linux (that is, GNU libc) supports the portable locales +Linux (that is, glibc) supports the portable locales .BR """C""" " and " """POSIX""" . In the good old days there used to be support for the European Latin-1 diff --git a/man3/strptime.3 b/man3/strptime.3 index 26f84cbed8..8a1feab1a7 100644 --- a/man3/strptime.3 +++ b/man3/strptime.3 @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ In principle, this function does not initialize \fBtm\fP but only stores the values specified. This means that \fBtm\fP should be initialized before the call. Details differ a bit between different Unix systems. -The GNU libc implementation does not touch those fields which are not +The glibc implementation does not touch those fields which are not explicitly specified, except that it recomputes the .IR tm_wday and @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Finally The number of seconds since the epoch, that is, since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. Leap seconds are not counted unless leap second support is available. .LP -The GNU libc implementation does not require whitespace between +The glibc implementation does not require whitespace between two field descriptors. .SH EXAMPLE The following example demonstrates the use of diff --git a/man3/wprintf.3 b/man3/wprintf.3 index 70637ac374..75c28b58c0 100644 --- a/man3/wprintf.3 +++ b/man3/wprintf.3 @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ compile time. This is because the .I wchar_t representation is platform and locale dependent. -(The GNU libc represents +(The glibc represents wide characters using their Unicode (ISO-10646) code point, but other platforms don't do this. Also, the use of C99 universal character names diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7 index 12d2db8579..f36f2824c7 100644 --- a/man7/charsets.7 +++ b/man7/charsets.7 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Various ASCII variants replacing the dollar sign with other currency symbols and replacing punctuation with non-English alphabetic characters to cover German, French, Spanish and others in 7 bits exist. All are -deprecated; GNU libc doesn't support locales whose character sets aren't +deprecated; glibc doesn't support locales whose character sets aren't true supersets of ASCII. (These sets are also known as ISO-646, a close relative of ASCII that permitted replacing these characters.) .LP |