Glibc is the GNU project's C standard library, licensed under the LGPL. The lead contributor and maintainer is Ulrich Drepper. Jump to: navigation, search The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU project was announced in September 1983 (and begun in January 1984) by Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete, free software operating system. ... The C standard library is a now-standardised collection of header files and library routines used to implement common operations, such as input/output and string handling, in the C programming language. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved free software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ... Ulrich Drepper is the lead contributer and maintainer of the GNUs C standard library project, Glibc. ...

In addition to providing the functionality required by Unix98, Single UNIX Specification, POSIX (1c, 1d, and 1j) and some of the functionality required by ISO C99, Glibc also provides extensions which have been deemed useful or necessary while developing GNU. Jump to: navigation, search The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems to qualify for the name Unix. The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin Group, based on earlier work by the IEEE and The Open Group. ... Jump to: navigation, search POSIX is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application program interface (API) for software designed to run on variants of the Unix OS. They are formally designated as IEEE 1003 and the international standard name is... Jump to: navigation, search ISO has many meanings: Iso is the stem of the Latin transliteration of the Greek word ίσος (ísos, meaning equal). The iso- prefix in English derives from this and means equality or similarity. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a low_level standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX...

Glibc is very portable, both between different kernels and across different types of hardware. The officially supported hardware includes: x86, m68k, alpha, powerpc, arm, cris, mips, s390, and sparc. The kernels it is known to run on are the Hurd, Linux and the kernels of FreeBSD and NetBSD. It is also used (in an edited form) as the libroot of BeOS and hence Haiku. It has been suggested that Microkernel be merged into this article or section. ... Hardware is equipment such as fasteners, keys, locks, hinges, latches, corners, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal. ... GNU Hurd logo The GNU Hurd is a computer program. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Linux mascot Tux created by Larry Ewing The Linux kernel is a free Unix-like operating system kernel that was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and subsequently improved with the assistance of developers around the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD and 4. ... Jump to: navigation, search NetBSD was the first of the freely redistributable, open-source versions of the BSD Unix-like operating systems to produce a formal release. ... Jump to: navigation, search BeOS was an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1991. ... Haiku, formerly known as OpenBeOS, is an open source project dedicated to the recreation, followed by the extension, of the Be Operating System. ...

Glibc version 2 has been referred to by Linux users as libc6, because it replaced the older Linux C library version 5 (libc5). Such usage is uncommon nowadays. Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...

The latest version of Glibc is 2.3.6 (as of November 4, 2005). Jump to: navigation, search November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Glibc homepage
• Manual