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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-06-29 08:06:57 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-06-29 09:49:08 +0200
commit738dea653be370f3e28a2d65299cc5916172c14b (patch)
tree76c9fa8ad7a0d302955bd81b21ad6a166fa4fccb
parenta59ac1b5a5e1e2b80fc6b6e6e40e7f6fcf0b65bb (diff)
libc.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/libc.75
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/libc.7 b/man7/libc.7
index 56d1629e5..fc9713631 100644
--- a/man7/libc.7
+++ b/man7/libc.7
@@ -68,12 +68,13 @@ Linux libc released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5
(as well as many minor versions of those releases).
For a while,
Linux libc was the standard C library in many Linux distributions.
+
However, notwithstanding the original motivations of the Linux libc effort,
by the time glibc 2.0 was released (in 1997),
it was clearly superior to Linux libc,
and all major Linux distributions that had been using Linux libc
soon switched back to glibc.
-(Since this switch occurred long ago,
+Since this switch occurred long ago,
.I man-pages
no longer takes care to document Linux libc details.
Nevertheless, the history is visible in vestiges of information
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ about Linux libc that remain in some manual pages,
in particular, references to
.IR libc4
and
-.IR libc5 .)
+.IR libc5 .
.SS Other C libraries
There are various other less widely used C libraries for Linux.
These libraries are generally smaller than glibc,