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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 28 March 1996 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 22 June 1996 Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU C library bug reports to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu. -Version 1.10 +Version 2.0 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Version 1.10 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. -* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.3 release. +* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.4-T3B release. * The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block. This can be @@ -151,9 +151,18 @@ Version 1.10 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). * David Mosberger-Tang has ported the C library to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). + Richard Henderson contributed the dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to - support multiple languages, for use with his new package GNU gettext. + support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with + his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed + catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. + +* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' + program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it + creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the + <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with + programs already written to use it.) * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> constants. @@ -192,6 +201,15 @@ Version 1.10 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum number of characters for the null terminator. + +* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. + +* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader + provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated + strings. + +* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading + and writing the utmp file. Version 1.09 |