• The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library. It provides a wrapper around the system calls...
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  • for systems without bcrypt. It has been integrated into glibc in SUSE Linux. In August 2017, glibc announced plans to remove its crypt implementation completely...
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  • Malloc") as a general-purpose allocator, starting in 1987. The GNU C library (glibc) is derived from Wolfram Gloger's ptmalloc ("pthreads malloc"), a fork of...
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  • into the GNU C Library (glibc) in its version 2.4, released in March 2006, while the support for inotify was completed in glibc version 2.5, released in...
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    that separate software repositories and installation media using either glibc or musl are available. Void was the first distribution to incorporate LibreSSL...
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    most commonly used software library on Linux systems, the GNU C Library (glibc), there are numerous other libraries, such as SDL and Mesa. The C standard...
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    software. uClibc is much smaller than the glibc, the C library normally used with Linux distributions. While glibc is intended to fully support all relevant...
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  • makes it even less portable than the sys_errlist table. The GNU C library (GLIBC) provides the additional POSIX error values macros in the header file errno...
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    Retrieved 27 April 2015. "glibc 2.12 announce". "sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/blob - libc-abis". "sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/blob - sysdeps/gnu/ldsodefs...
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  • Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps". Phoronix. Retrieved March 11, 2025. "Tumbleweed - Move to x86-64-v2...
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    for configuring the firewall capabilities. In version 6 Red Hat moved to glibc 2.1, egcs-1.2, and to the 2.2 kernel. It was the first version to use the...
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  • used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd. This makes Alpine one of few Linux distributions not to be based on the GNU Core Utilities or glibc. For...
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    dormant unless extracted and injected into the program. The code uses the glibc IFUNC mechanism to replace an existing function in OpenSSH called RSA_public_decrypt...
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  • implementations distributed with BSD-derived operating systems GNU C Library (glibc), used in GNU Hurd, GNU/kFreeBSD, and most Linux distributions Microsoft...
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    widely used non-standard Linux, BSD, and glibc functions. There is partial ABI compatibility with the part of glibc required by Linux Standard Base. Version...
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  • internally in the Linux kernel. This did change in 2024, the glibc FAQ notes that as of glibc 2.38, the code has been committed and thereby added. These...
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  • kernel. The main benefits of using Bionic instead of the GNU C Library (glibc) or uClibc are its smaller runtime footprint, and optimization for low-frequency...
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    BASIC Programming, chapter 11". Retrieved 14 Mar 2025. Implementation in glibc-2.26 release. See the code after the test for "TYPE_0"; the GNU C library's...
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  • later kernel X11R5 capable Xserver running locally on a 24-bit display glibc 2.3.2 or later gtk/gdk/glib (optional – required for native theme support)...
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  • Google for its Android operating system. It differs from the GNU C Library (glibc) in being designed for devices with less memory and processor power than...
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    from FreeBSD, and the musl C library in-place of the GNU coreutils and glibc respectively. A strict default security model, employing the in-development...
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    Char File I/O Math Dynamic memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc...
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  • malloc, memcpy, localtime, pthread_create... (up to 2000 subroutines) glibc aims to be fast, musl aims to be lightweight, uClibc targets embedded systems...
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    symbols from bionic with glibc" calls, making it possible to use Bionic-based software, such as binary-only Android drivers, on glibc-based Linux distributions...
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  • the address space randomization patch for Linux kernels, a wide set of glibc internal security checks that make heap and format string exploits near...
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  • Native Client SDK (NaCl) includes Newlib as the default C library over glibc. In 2019, Keith Packard released Picolibc, a library offering standard C...
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  • notation. 2.^ Used to implement the memmem and strstr search functions in the glibc and musl C standard libraries. 3.^ Can be extended to handle approximate...
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    library are glibc uClibc klibc Newlib musl dietlibc libbionic and libhybris Although the landscape is shifting, amongst these options, glibc remains the...
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  • and supports more than four system calls. Some C standard libraries, like glibc, may provide vDSO links so that if the kernel does not have vDSO support...
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    R2 Minimum GTK 3.14 or newer libstdc++ 4.8.1 or newer X.Org 1.0 or newer glibc 2.17 or newer Recommended NetworkManager 0.7 or newer DBus 1.0 or newer...
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