GLIBC programs - short descriptions

[Dragan Stanojevic - Nevidljivi]

Hi!

I'd like to create short descriptions of every program in glibc. A 
little more than 'whatis' prints out, and readable by everyone not just 
by hackers. Can you help me? I have writen it and I'm mailing this to 
you now but this is what I have figured out and I'm not really shure did 
I get everything correctly. Probably there will be something funny from 
my wild guesses, and my spelling errors.

Thank you for any reply...
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/sbin/ldconfig    - it is used for the configureation of dynamic linker. 
It generates /etc/ld.so.cache file. Configuration file it uses is 
/etc/ld.so.conf which contains list of directories with libraries 
separated by newline.

/sbin/sln            - static ln command.

/usr/bin/catchesegv    - program which is primarily used by programmers. 
It is used for debuging segmentation faults in program by showing 
contents of registers.

/usr/bin/gencat    - a program for creating files with translations 
which are used during execution of a program. It translates formated 
text files into files which are optimized for quick search.

/usr/bin/getconf    - helper application which is usually not started 
interactively but in scripts. It provides a printout of system 
configuration values, like maximum number of INT type and so on.

/ust/bin/getent        - prints out data from system databases which are 
in /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file.

/usr/bin/glibcbug    - shell script for error reporting to the GLIBC 
developers.

/usr/bin/iconv        - changes file from one code page to another. 
Usefull to convert files from some OS to Linux.

/usr/bin/ldd        -  shows all libraries which are needed by 
particular program.

/usr/bin/lddlibc4    - ldd command for older applications which were 
linked with version 4 of the C library.

/usr/bin/locale    - printout of current locale values

/usr/bin/localedef    - program for creating files with locale values 
from locale information files. Generated files are used by GLIBC.

/usr/bin/memusage    - it is used for showing memory usage by a 
particular program.

/usr/bin/memusagestat - program which shows memory usage of a terminated 
program from a memory profiling file.

/usr/bin/mtrace    - program used primarily by programers for testing if 
a program has memory leak error.

/usr/bin/pcprofiledump    - creates a file whith program execution 
speed. It is used by xtrace shell script.

/usr/bin/rpcgen        - Remote Procedure Call procesor which generated 
C code acording to RPC program. It can be used for generating simple 
client/server C files which can then be programed into something more 
usefull.

/usr/bin/sprof        - shows data about speed of shared objects.

/usr/bin/tzselect    - shell script for interactive time zone selection.

/usr/bin/xtrace    - shows execution of a program by printing every 
started function. It uses pcprofiledump.

/usr/sbin/iconvconfig    - program which creates fast loading 
configuration files for iconv module.

/usr/sbin/nscd        - Name Service Cache Daemon is a simple catche 
daemon which collects and keeps data from system databases and even DNS 
queries, and by doing that it increses users access in heterogenuos 
networks.

/usr/sbin/pt_chown    - program not intended to be used  by regular 
users but by GLIBC which uses it to set correct permisions of a 
terminal. If you use devfs or defptsfs in kernel this program is not needed!

/usr/sbin/zdump    - prints date and time of various time zones.

/usr/sbin/zic        - compiler for time zone files.