1 GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1998-03-04
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12 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
13 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
14 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
15 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
16 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
17 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
19 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
20 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
22 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
25 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
26 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
28 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
30 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
33 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
35 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
36 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
38 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
39 functions from ISO C 9X.
41 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
42 real valued functions.
44 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
46 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
48 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
50 * Ulrich Drepper added character conversion functions.
52 * Optimized string functions have been added.
54 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
56 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
58 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for a caching daemon for NSS
61 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
63 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
69 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
71 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
73 * rewrite of cbrt function
75 * update of timezone data
91 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
97 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
99 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
101 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
102 the ELF dynamic loader.
104 * support for parallel builds is improved
108 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
109 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
112 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
113 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
114 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
115 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
116 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
117 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
118 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
119 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
120 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
121 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
122 files in the ELF format.
124 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
125 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
127 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
128 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
129 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
130 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
131 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
132 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
133 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
134 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
135 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
136 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
137 about dynamically linked binaries.
139 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
140 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
141 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
142 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
143 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
145 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
146 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
147 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
148 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
149 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
151 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
153 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
154 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
155 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
156 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
157 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
158 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
159 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
160 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
161 NSS services available.
163 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
164 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
165 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
167 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
168 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
169 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
171 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
172 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
173 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
174 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
176 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
177 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
178 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
180 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
181 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
182 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
184 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
185 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
187 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
188 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
189 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
190 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
192 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
193 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
194 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
196 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
197 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
198 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
199 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
200 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
201 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
202 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
203 the header file <printf.h> for details.
205 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
206 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
207 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
208 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
209 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
210 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
211 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
213 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
214 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
215 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
216 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
217 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
218 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
220 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
221 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
223 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
224 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
225 NSS scheme used in glibc.
227 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
229 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
230 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
231 their use is discouraged.
233 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
234 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
236 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
237 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
239 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
240 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
242 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
245 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
246 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
247 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
248 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
249 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
251 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
252 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
253 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
254 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
256 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
257 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
259 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
260 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
261 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
262 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
265 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
266 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
268 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
269 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
271 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
272 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
273 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
274 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
276 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
278 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
279 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
280 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
282 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
283 for arithmetic and string handling.
285 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
286 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
287 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
288 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
290 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
291 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
292 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
293 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
294 programs already written to use it.)
296 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
299 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
302 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
303 a given effective group ID.
305 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
306 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
307 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
308 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
310 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
311 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
312 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
313 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
314 doing the same thing.
316 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
317 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
319 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
320 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
322 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
324 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
325 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
326 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
327 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
328 `-ldb' to get these functions.
330 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
331 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
333 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
334 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
335 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
338 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
340 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
341 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
344 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
345 and writing the utmp file.
347 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
350 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
351 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
352 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
354 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
355 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
357 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
358 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
361 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
362 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
363 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
364 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
366 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
367 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
368 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
370 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
371 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
372 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
375 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
378 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
381 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
383 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
384 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
385 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
389 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
391 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
392 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
394 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
395 want to put themselves in the background.
397 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
398 run without an operating system.
400 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
401 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
403 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
404 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
406 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
408 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
409 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
412 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
415 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
416 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
420 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
421 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
422 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
424 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
425 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
427 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
428 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
430 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
432 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
434 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
437 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
438 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
439 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
441 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
443 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
444 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
445 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
447 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
448 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
449 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
450 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
451 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
454 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
455 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
456 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
457 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
458 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
461 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
462 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
466 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
467 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
469 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
470 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
471 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
473 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
474 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
475 address of the last character written.
477 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
478 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
480 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
481 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
483 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
484 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
485 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
486 you dereference this pointer.
488 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
489 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
491 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
492 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
493 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
494 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
496 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
497 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
498 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
499 EAGAIN in every system call function.
503 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
504 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
505 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
506 in Emacs or the `info' program.
507 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
509 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
511 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
513 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
514 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
516 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
517 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
519 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
520 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
522 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
523 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
524 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
525 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
526 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
528 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
529 to the error code in `errno'.
531 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
532 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
533 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
536 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
537 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
538 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
540 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
541 uniquely-named temporary file.
545 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
546 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
547 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
549 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
552 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
553 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
555 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
559 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
560 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
561 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
562 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
564 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
565 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
566 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
568 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
569 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
571 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
572 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
573 made itself into a shared library.
575 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
576 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
578 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
581 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
583 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
585 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
587 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
588 function for traversing a directory tree.
590 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
591 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
592 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
593 formatted output directly to an obstack.
595 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
596 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
598 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
600 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
601 things to your strings.
603 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
605 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
606 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
607 supporting those systems.
609 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
610 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
611 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
614 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
615 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
617 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
618 bcmp, bzero, and ffs.
620 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
621 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
622 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
623 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
624 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
625 required storage is not available.
627 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
628 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
629 Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations,
630 we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C library.
631 There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is called
632 `glibc-VERSION-crypt.tar.Z', e.g. `glibc-1.04-crypt.tar.Z'. You can just
633 unpack the crypt distribution along with the rest of the C library and
634 build; you can also build the library without getting crypt. Users
635 outside the USA can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from
636 ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74], or another archive site outside the U.S.
638 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
639 latest files released from Berkeley.
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