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Most of this information was stolen from the GNU Libc web page and from Ulrich Drepper's <[email protected]> glibc 2 announcement and his comments. Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> provided some of the Reporting bugs section.
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Besides writing this HOWTO, maintaining the glibc 2 for Linux page, and using it on my machine, I have nothing to do with the glibc project. I am far from knowledgeable on this topic, though I try to help with problems mailed to me. I welcome any feedback, corrections, or suggestions you have to offer. Please send them to .
Copyright (c) 1997 by Eric Green. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth in the LDP license.