LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man7 / libc.7

diff --git a/original/man7/libc.7 b/original/man7/libc.7
index b7570cc..45c9670 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man7/libc.7
+++ b/original/man7/libc.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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 .\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
-.TH LIBC 7 2014-01-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH LIBC 7 2014-07-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 libc \- overview of standard C libraries on Linux
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -68,11 +68,13 @@ Linux libc released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5
 (as well as many minor versions of those releases).
 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
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ about Linux libc that remain in some manual pages,
 in particular, references to
 .IR libc4
 and
-.IR libc5 .)
+.IR libc5 .
 .SS Other C libraries
 There are various other less widely used C libraries for Linux.
 These libraries are generally smaller than glibc,
@@ -88,14 +90,19 @@ 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
+.UR http://www.uclibc.org/
 .I uClibc
-.RI ( http://www.uclibc.org/ )
-and
+.UE ,
+.UR http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
 .I dietlibc
-.RI ( http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/ ).
-Details of these libraries are generally not covered by the
+.UE ,
+and
+.UR http://www.musl-libc.org/
+.I "musl libc"
+.UE .
+Details of these libraries are covered by the
 .I man-pages
-project.
+project, where they are known.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR syscalls (2),
 .BR getauxval (3),
@@ -105,10 +112,11 @@ project.
 .BR standards (7),
 .BR vdso (7)
 .SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.64 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
 .I man-pages
 project.
 A description of the project,
-and information about reporting bugs,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
 can be found at
 \%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.