linux 内核 libc,c-libc（glibc）在我们的Linux应用程序中起什么作用？

您可以通过在shell上键入“ man libc”来检查Linux系统手册页上有关“ libc”和“ glibc”的详细信息，复制如下：

LIBC(7) Linux Programmer's Manual LIBC(7)

NAME

libc - overview of standard C libraries on Linux

DESCRIPTION

The term "libc" is commonly used as a shorthand for the "standard C library", a library of standard functions that can be

used by all C programs (and sometimes by programs in other languages). Because of some history (see below), use of the

term "libc" to refer to the standard C library is somewhat ambiguous on Linux.

glibc

By far the most widely used C library on Linux is the GNU C Library ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/⟩, often referred

to as glibc. This is the C library that is nowadays used in all major Linux distributions. It is also the C library

whose details are documented in the relevant pages of the man-pages project (primarily in Section 3 of the manual). Doc‐

umentation of glibc is also available in the glibc manual, available via the command info libc. Release 1.0 of glibc was

made in September 1992. (There were earlier 0.x releases.) The next major release of glibc was 2.0, at the beginning of

1997.

The pathname /lib/libc.so.6 (or something similar) is normally a symbolic link that points to the location of the glibc

library, and executing this pathname will cause glibc to display various information about the version installed on your

system.

Linux libc

In the early to mid 1990s, there was for a while Linux libc, a fork of glibc 1.x created by Linux developers who felt

that glibc development at the time was not sufficing for the needs of Linux. Often, this library was referred to

(ambiguously) as just "libc". 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, man-pages no longer takes care to document Linux libc details. Nev‐

ertheless, the history is visible in vestiges of information about Linux libc that remain in some manual pages, in par‐

ticular, references to libc4 and libc5.