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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
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Use Texinfo macros to refer to the GNU C Library within the manual.
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ this array, in bytes. Note that this is @emph{not} the DNS hostname.
If the system participates in DNS, this is the FQDN (see above).
The return value is @code{0} on success and @code{-1} on failure. In
-the GNU C library, @code{gethostname} fails if @var{size} is not large
+@theglibc{}, @code{gethostname} fails if @var{size} is not large
enough; then you can try again with a larger array. The following
@code{errno} error condition is defined for this function:
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ system.
This is a description of the type of hardware that is in use.
Some systems provide a mechanism to interrogate the kernel directly for
-this information. On systems without such a mechanism, the GNU C
-library fills in this field based on the configuration name that was
+this information. On systems without such a mechanism, @theglibc{}
+fills in this field based on the configuration name that was
specified when building and installing the library.
GNU uses a three-part name to describe a system configuration; the three
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ hardware, it consists of the first two parts of the configuration name:
@end quotation
@item char nodename[]
-This is the host name of this particular computer. In the GNU C
-library, the value is the same as that returned by @code{gethostname};
+This is the host name of this particular computer. In @theglibc{},
+the value is the same as that returned by @code{gethostname};
see @ref{Host Identification}.
@ gethostname() is implemented with a call to uname().
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ gets stored.
For some programs it is desirable and necessary to access information
about whether a certain filesystem is mounted and, if it is, where, or
-simply to get lists of all the available filesystems. The GNU libc
+simply to get lists of all the available filesystems. @Theglibc{}
provides some functions to retrieve this information portably.
Traditionally Unix systems have a file named @file{/etc/fstab} which
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ related to the @code{dump} utility used on Unix systems.
@end deftp
-To read the entire content of the of the @file{fstab} file the GNU libc
+To read the entire content of the of the @file{fstab} file @theglibc{}
contains a set of three functions which are designed in the usual way.
@comment fstab.h
@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ which is uninteresting for all programs beside @code{dump}.
For accessing the @file{mtab} file there is again a set of three
functions to access all entries in a row. Unlike the functions to
handle @file{fstab} these functions do not access a fixed file and there
-is even a thread safe variant of the get function. Beside this the GNU
-libc contains functions to alter the file and test for specific options.
+is even a thread safe variant of the get function. Beside this @theglibc
+contains functions to alter the file and test for specific options.
@comment mntent.h
@comment BSD
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages
@c possible to create a sysctl-only parameter.
Some more traditional and more widely available, though less general,
-GNU C library functions for getting and setting some of the same system
+@glibcadj{} functions for getting and setting some of the same system
parameters are:
@itemize @bullet