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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="GNU C Library"]]
+
+
+# <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/>
+
+
+## Sources
+
+For concenience, we maintain our own [[source
+repository|source_repositories/glibc]].
+
+
+# Specifics
+
+Porting glibc to a specific architecture is non-trivial.
+
+
+## [[Hurd-specific Port|hurd/glibc]]
+
+
+# Implementation Details
+
+  * [[hurd/glibc/Hurd-specific API]]
+
+  * [[open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling]]
+
+
+## Concepts
+
+  * [[environment_variables]]
+
+  * [[signals]]
+
+
+## Individual functions
+
+Some of these are well-known as [[UNIX]] [[system call]]s.
+
+  * [[fallocate]]
+
+  * [[fork]]
+
+  * [[poll]]
+
+
+# Open Issues
+
+[[!inline pages=tag/open_issue_glibc raw=yes feeds=no]]