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Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/libc.7 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/libc.7 b/man7/libc.7 index 2bdf9eeea4..56d1629e56 100644 --- a/man7/libc.7 +++ b/man7/libc.7 @@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ Linux libc released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5 For a while, Linux libc was the standard C library in many Linux distributions. However, notwithstanding the original motivations of the Linux libc effort, -by the time glibc 2.0 was released, it was clearly superior to Linux libc, +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. -(Since this switch occurred over a decade ago, +(Since this switch occurred long ago, .I man-pages no longer takes care to document Linux libc details. Nevertheless, the history is visible in vestiges of information |