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Re: [PATCH] Fix up LD_* vars behaviour


On 13 Apr 2012, Carlos O'Donell stated:
> (1) Official standards like http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/
> - Information about portability is very good.
> - Unfortunately they do not document glibc specific information.
>
> (2) The GNU C Library manual http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/
> - Traditional manual available in many formats.
>
> (3) The man-pages project
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_all_alphabetic.html
> - Detailed information per interface in man format.
>
> Each of (1), (2) and (3) offers our users choice in how they want to
> view the APIs.

If it wasn't for the GPL/GFDL licensing difference, it would seem
reasonable to use the manpages for the things not documented in glibc as
a source for glibc documentation -- the most notable is that (1), (2)
and Michael's book all document pthreads, while the glibc docs don't
mention them. (The book's documentation is particularly good: I don't
feel like I truly understood pthreads until I read it.)

But the licensing difference probably means that glibc needs to write
docs for pthreads from scratch :(

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