Linux Standard C library glibc-general Linux technology-Linux programming and kernel information. The following is a detailed description. Glibc is the libc library released by gnu, that is, the c Runtime Library. Glibc is the underlying api on top of the linux kernel. almost any other Runtime Library relies on glibc. Glibc not only encapsulates the system services provided by the linux operating system, but also provides implementation of many other necessary functional services, mainly as follows:
(1) string, string processing
(2) signal, signal processing
(3) manage dynamic loading of shared libraries in dlfcn
(4) direct, file directory operations
(5) elf, the dynamic loader of the shared library, that is, interpreter
(6) iconv, encoding conversion of different character sets
(7) Implementation of inet and socket Interfaces
(8) intl, international, that is, the implementation of gettext
(9) io, basic IO operations
(10) linuxthreads, thread
(11) locale, Localization
(12) login, virtual terminal device management, and secure system access
(13) malloc: Allocation and Management of dynamic memory
(14) nis
(15) stdlib, other basic functions
Based on the importance of the glibc library, the installed linux system basically has the glibc library.
You can run the following command to view the installed glibc library and related suites.
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