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This is The GNU C Library Reference Manual, for Version 2.25 of the GNU C Library.

Table of Contents

Short Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Error Reporting
3 Virtual Memory Allocation And Paging
4 Character Handling
5 String and Array Utilities
6 Character Set Handling
7 Locales and Internationalization
8 Message Translation
9 Searching and Sorting
10 Pattern Matching
11 Input/Output Overview
12 Input/Output on Streams
13 Low-Level Input/Output
14 File System Interface
15 Pipes and FIFOs
16 Sockets
17 Low-Level Terminal Interface
18 Syslog
19 Mathematics
20 Arithmetic Functions
21 Date and Time
22 Resource Usage And Limitation
23 Non-Local Exits
24 Signal Handling
25 The Basic Program/System Interface
26 Processes
27 Inter-Process Communication
28 Job Control
29 System Databases and Name Service Switch
30 Users and Groups
31 System Management
32 System Configuration Parameters
33 DES Encryption and Password Handling
34 Debugging support
35 POSIX Threads
36 Internal probes
37 Tunables
Appendix A C Language Facilities in the Library
Appendix B Summary of Library Facilities
Appendix C Installing the GNU C Library
Appendix D Library Maintenance
Appendix E Platform-specific facilities
Appendix F Contributors to the GNU C Library
Appendix G Free Software Needs Free Documentation
Appendix H GNU Lesser General Public License
Appendix I GNU Free Documentation License
Concept Index
Type Index
Function and Macro Index
Variable and Constant Macro Index
Program and File Index