Top "Glibc" questions

The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system and most systems with the Linux kernel.

What standard C library does Clang use? glibc, its own, or some other one?

I'm pretty sure glibc is the name of the standard C library implementation for gcc. But for LLVM/Clang I'm …

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getting utc timestamp using strftime()

I am trying to encode current utc time into string using the strftimefunction: time_t now; struct tm nowLocal; struct …

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Why glibc and pthread library both defined same APIs?

Why glibc and pthread library both defined same APIs ? Here is the snapshot ubuntu@ubuntu:/lib$ objdump -T /lib/i386…

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libc.so.6() (64-bit) is needed by .... ubuntu 11.10

I am trying to install an odbc driver for vPostgres (Vmware's version for postgres) on Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit). I have downloaded …

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ld glibc ubuntu-11.10
Why can the execve system call run "/bin/sh" without any argv arguments, but not "/bin/ls"?

I am confused with the syscall of __NR_execve. When I learn linux system call. The correct way that I …

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