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The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library. It provides a wrapper around the system calls...

into the GNU C Library (glibc) in its version 2.4, released in March 2006, while the support for inotify was completed in glibc version 2.5, released in...

for systems without bcrypt. It has been integrated into glibc in SUSE Linux. In August 2017, glibc announced plans to remove its crypt implementation completely...

that separate software repositories and installation media using either glibc or musl are available. Void was the first distribution to incorporate LibreSSL...

widely used non-standard Linux, BSD, and glibc functions. There is partial ABI compatibility with the part of glibc required by Linux Standard Base. Version...

for configuring the firewall capabilities. In version 6 Red Hat moved to glibc 2.1, egcs-1.2, and to the 2.2 kernel. It was the first version to use the...

most commonly used software library on Linux systems, the GNU C Library (glibc), there are numerous other libraries, such as SDL and Mesa. The C standard...

later kernel X11R5 capable Xserver running locally on a 24-bit display glibc 2.3.2 or later gtk/gdk/glib (optional – required for native theme support)...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

components include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU C library (glibc), and GNU Core Utilities (coreutils), but also the GNU Debugger (GDB), GNU...

symbols from bionic with glibc" calls, making it possible to use Bionic-based software, such as binary-only Android drivers, on glibc-based Linux distributions...

only when the system is being built on an x86-64 Linux system that uses glibc and GCC and is being built via dpkg or rpm. The US federal Cybersecurity...

Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps". Phoronix. Retrieved March 11, 2025. "Tumbleweed – Move to x86-64-v2...

and resource efficiency". It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd, respectively. This makes Alpine one of...

Retrieved 27 April 2015. "glibc 2.12 announce". "sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/blob - libc-abis". "sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/blob - sysdeps/gnu/ldsodefs...

software. uClibc is much smaller than the glibc, the C library normally used with Linux distributions. While glibc is intended to fully support all relevant...

is found in most Linux distributions and FreeBSD, and it is part of the glibc package. ldconfig works by searching for .so files in directories specified...

Malloc") as a general-purpose allocator, starting in 1987. The GNU C library (glibc) is derived from Wolfram Gloger's ptmalloc ("pthreads malloc"), a fork of...

FFmpeg Fontconfig FreeTDS FreeType GD Graphics Library GDK GEGL GGI GIO GLib glibc GLFW GNet GNU Libtool GNU portability library GNU Portable Threads GNU Readline...

Because Chimera Linux uses musl instead of glibc, some proprietary and closed-source applications that assume glibc compatibility cannot run without additional...

Google for its Android operating system. It differs from the GNU C Library (glibc) in being designed for devices with less memory and processor power than...

library are glibc uClibc klibc Newlib musl dietlibc libbionic and libhybris Although the landscape is shifting, amongst these options, glibc remains the...

and supports more than four system calls. Some C standard libraries, like glibc, may provide vDSO links so that if the kernel does not have vDSO support...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

Kerrisk, which documents the APIs of the Linux kernel and the GNU C Library (glibc). The book covers topics related to the Linux operating system and operating...

accounting and size-checking, such as in the uses of alloca_account in glibc. The proper management of memory in an application is a difficult problem...

implementations distributed with BSD-derived operating systems GNU C Library (glibc), used in GNU Hurd, GNU/kFreeBSD, and most Linux distributions The Microsoft...

quite commonly used in a number of performance-critical libraries such as glibc and libjpeg-turbo. Intel C++ Compiler, GNU Compiler Collection since GCC...

malloc, memcpy, localtime, pthread_create, ... (up to 2000 subroutines) glibc aims to be fast, musl aims to be lightweight, uClibc targets embedded systems...

kernel. The main benefits of using Bionic instead of the GNU C Library (glibc) or uClibc are its smaller runtime footprint, and optimization for low-frequency...

BASIC Programming, chapter 11". Retrieved 14 Mar 2025. Implementation in glibc-2.26 release. See the code after the test for "TYPE_0"; the GNU C library's...

mode. These components do not have access to the standard library (usually glibc or musl) used by normal userspace programs. The development of klibc library...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

makes it even less portable than the sys_errlist table. The GNU C library (GLIBC) provides the additional POSIX error values macros in the header file <errno...

tmpfs systemd udev Kmscon binfmt_misc Wrapper libraries C standard library glibc uClibc Bionic libhybris dietlibc EGLIBC klibc musl Newlib libcgroup libdrm...

operating system and normal user programs. Usually it is a C library such as Glibc or Windows API. The library handles the low-level details of passing information...

internally in the Linux kernel. This did change in 2024, the glibc FAQ notes that as of glibc 2.38, the code has been committed and thereby added. These...

Precompiled binaries are available for some packages, but only for systems using Glibc; no precompiled binaries are available for Musl-based systems. Gentoo runs...

R2 Minimum GTK 3.14 or newer libstdc++ 4.8.1 or newer X.Org 1.0 or newer glibc 2.17 or newer Recommended NetworkManager 0.7 or newer DBus 1.0 or newer...

not have native support for obtaining stack traces, but libraries such as glibc provide this functionality. In C and C++, some compiler optimizations may...

notation. Used to implement the memmem and strstr search functions in the glibc and musl C standard libraries. Can be extended to handle approximate string...

of arc4random in FreeBSD, NetBSD also use ChaCha20. Linux typically uses glibc, which did not offer arc4random until 2022. Instead, a separate library...

code was written by Ulrich Drepper and extracted from a 2001 release of glibc. All of the following files are assumed to be in the current directory....

protocol. It uses standard Linux middleware like Systemd, Pulseaudio and Qt. Glibc is the included C Library. The first Jolla Phone in 2013 used Btrfs for...

server-based distributions use GNU software such as the GNU C Library (glibc), GNU Core Utilities (coreutils), GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils...

LWN.net. Retrieved 30 March 2014. Edge, Jake (October 27, 2010). "Two glibc vulnerabilities". LWN.net. Retrieved 30 March 2014. McIlroy, M. Douglas...

2 --help (available since glibc 2.33). The result will be visible at the end of command's output: Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority...

Native Client SDK (NaCl) includes Newlib as the default C library over glibc. In 2019, Keith Packard released Picolibc, a library offering standard C...

secure. It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd. Owl - Openwall GNU/Linux, a security-enhanced...

malloc, memcpy, localtime, pthread_create, ... (up to 2000 subroutines) glibc aims to be fast, musl aims to be lightweight, uClibc targets embedded systems...

direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc. Most of this work was focused at making OpenOffice.org and now its fork...

framework for the L4/Hurd port, and Marcus Brinkmann ported essential parts of glibc; namely, getting the process startup code working, allowing programs to...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

first packages to compile is glibc; after that, the toolchain's linker must be adjusted to link against the newly built glibc, so that all other packages...

Munk, Carsten (11 April 2013). "Wayland utilizing Android GPU drivers on glibc based systems, Part 1". Mer Project. Archived from the original on 19 April...

This feature is built into some mutex implementations, for example in glibc. The Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) in x86 is a weakened but backwards-compatible...

implementation-dependent and must be negative (it is commonly −1, such as in glibc). Block-reading functions return the number of bytes read, and if this is...

facing OpenSSH instances potentially vulnerable to the attack. It affects glibc-based Linux systems; Windows and OpenBSD systems are not vulnerable to the...

interfaces for abstraction of system calls. The fork and execve functions in glibc are examples of this. They call the lower-level fork and execve system calls...

these constraints loosened, editors with more feedback became the norm. The glibc documentation notes an error code called ED with its description (errorstr)...

a security flaw was found in the implementation of ISO-2022-CN-EXT in glibc, which lead to recommendations to disable the encoding entirely on Linux...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

"GB18030 iconv module for glibc". glibc git. Retrieved 29 November 2016. Drepper, Ulrich. "Update GB18030 to 2005 version". glibc git. Retrieved 29 November...

tests designed to confirm the behaviour of the Linux kernel as well as glibc. The LTP is a joint project started by SGI, developed and maintained by...

(x64, x86), macOS 10.15+ (x64, arm64) and Linux (x64, arm64) (GTK 3.20+, glibc 2.27+, libsane). The supported file formats are PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG...

of xz that predate the affected releases and the attack targets Linux's glibc. On October 31, 2024, cybersecurity researchers from several security firms...

users of the Microsoft Windows version. Applying the GTK+ widget toolkit, Glibc, and libstdc++, Nero Linux reproduced most of the features of Nero Burning...

(the other option is the X/Open catgets), so many C libraries, including glibc, implemented both. As of August 2019[update], whether gettext should be...

BE, up to 32-bit). Windows has a 64-bit extension in winsock2.h. BSD and Glibc endian.h functions (from/to BE and LE, up to 64-bit). macOS OSByteOrder...

original on 23 April 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025. Y2038 Proofness Design glibc Wiki Entry in How Stuff Works The Project 2038 Frequently Asked Questions...

accounting and size-checking, such as in the uses of alloca_account in glibc. Some processor families, such as the x86, have special instructions for...

formatting function for non-builtin types. One is the (now deprecated) glibc's register_printf_function(). However, it is rarely used due to the fact...

Retrieved 21 April 2018. "glibc: iconv/iconv.c". Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 30 November 2016. "glibc: iconv/iconv_prog.c". Archived...

CVE entry (CVE-2026-4046) was reported for a bug in the GNU C Library (glibc) versions 2.43 and below, causing a process crash (with the associated denial...

ports, including Vim, Perl, Python, Apache, others. GNU toolchain (GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make) Preemptive multitasking with multithreading Symmetric multiprocessing...

may have been used on embedded systems, whereas systemd only supported glibc. The uselessd project had planned further improvements on cross-platform...

uses OpenMM 8.2, which includes some major bug fixes, including OpenCL and GLIBC. core 27 v8.2.1 Available to Windows and Linux for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs using...

API is usually part of an implementation of the C library (libc), such as glibc, that provides wrapper functions for the system calls, often named the same...

by noting the lack of support for many GNU tools in Android, including glibc. Other Linux-kernel-based operating systems include Tizen, Mer/Sailfish...

The library implements math functions for environments built on gcc and glibc. It uses BID-encoded IEEE 754 decimal types, with the possibility to switch...

Server 2019) or later macOS Monterey or later A Linux 6.x distribution with glibc 2.28 or later that supports GNOME, KDE RAM 2 GB free RAM minimum; 8 GB RAM...

from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023. "The GNU C Library (glibc)". The GNU Operating Sisyem. Free Software Foundation. Archived from the...

Lesbian Information Bureau (GLIB), a defunct bulletin board and website glibc, the GNU C Library Gnulib, the GNU portability library This disambiguation...

Rodríguez (October 1, 2019). "Cutting Edge Toolchain (Latest Features in GCC/GLIBC)". youtube.com. Linux Foundation. Archived from the original on November...

· kristapsdz/openrsync". It currently is portable across Linux (glibc and musl), FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and OmniOS.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...

elementary-function library". Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. "Git - glibc.git/commit". Sourceware.org. Retrieved 2022-07-18. de Dinechin, Florent;...

Modified General Public License Software GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP...

by LLVM and GCC when using compatible header files (such as those from glibc). Other lightweight methods such as stack canary checking (specifically...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

FFmpeg Fontconfig FreeTDS FreeType GD Graphics Library GDK GEGL GGI GIO GLib glibc GLFW GNet GNU Libtool GNU portability library GNU Portable Threads GNU Readline...

called crt0) is relatively small which eases supporting multiple platforms. glibc msvcrt Static build Bennett, Jeremy (July 2010). "The C Runtime Initialization...

contrast, on Linux you cannot depend on anything apart from the kernel and glibc. Hearn, Mike (2011-07-17). "Autopackage FAQ". autopackage.org. Archived...

implemented in well-optimized subroutines. It is used by the C standard libraries glibc, newlib, and musl, to implement the memmem and strstr family of substring...

hand is limited by the behavior of the memory allocator; in the case of glibc, allocations above 128 KB are created using mmap, limiting attackers to...

epoll_create1() and is deprecated as of Linux kernel version 2.6.27 and glibc version 2.9. int epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event*...

director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, "I see GDAL as the glibc/glibc++ of the geospatial software world. It's open, it provides core functionality...

license to be compiled and linked against copylefted libraries such as glibc and then redistributed without any re-licensing required. The concrete effect...

128-Bit Long Double Floating-Point Data Type. sourceware.org Re: The state of glibc libm "Intel Fortran Compiler Product Brief (archived copy on web.archive...

require a new version) and the various libraries that depend on them (like glibc). These changes will require coordination of many projects. Therefore, the...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

FFmpeg Fontconfig FreeTDS FreeType GD Graphics Library GDK GEGL GGI GIO GLib glibc GLFW GNet GNU Libtool GNU portability library GNU Portable Threads GNU Readline...

modifications "Dropping support for Windows XP/2003, Windows Vista/2008, and Linux GLIBC <2.24 as of Sven Co-op 5.18". Steam. Valve Corporation. December 12, 2018...

the address space randomization patch for Linux kernels, a wide set of glibc internal security checks that make heap and format string exploits near...

versions of Linux prior to 2.6.16 do not have a pselect() system call, forcing glibc to emulate it via a method prone to the very same race condition pselect()...

from Newsforge TiVo's GPL-required modifications to the Linux kernel, glibc, and other software Richard Stallman's explanations of "tivoisation": Italy...

64-bit Windows 10 or later, macOS Monterey 12 or later, 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.28 or later and glibcxx 3.4.25 or later Type IDE, CLI, SDK License Proprietary...

parameter |citeseerx= (help) "An alternative Memory Allocator for the standard glibc". 2007-09-16. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. "GNU Common C++...

award". Retrieved 2010-12-17. Qualys (2015-01-27). "CVE-2015-0235 - GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow". Seclists.org. Retrieved 2015-03-21. Openwall...

Modified General Public License Software GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP...

distribution that supports GNOME, KDE Plasma, or Unity; GNU C Library (glibc) 2.31 or later RAM 8 GB (Studio only) 16 GB (Studio and Emulator) Free disk...

is encountered, and that getopt would return -1 to signal that. In the glibc extension, however, options are allowed anywhere for ease of use; getopt...

character sets): Guido van Rossum's BSD libc fnmatch, also part of Apple libc Glibc fnmatch The general form of these algorithms are the same. On recursion...

sourceware.org. Retrieved 2013-12-30. crt0.o vs crt1.o Linux x86 program start-up Hello from a libc-free world! (Part 1), March 16, 2010 glibc x86_64 start.S...

via the Catalyst framework. Hybris, library that translates Bionic into glibc calls. 2ine, a project to run OS/2 application on Linux Cygwin, a POSIX-compatible...

adding major software updates which are GNOME, LibreOffice, Firefox, Linux, glibc and gcc paldo has primarily used the GNOME desktop in release snapshots...

y/2025-03-20/a-word-please-casting-sunshine-on-re "readpassphrase(3) in glibc, and agetpass() (Was: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?)". sourceware.org....

Overflows: Anatomy of an Exploit" by Nevermore Secure Programming with GCC and GLibc Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine (2008), by Marcel Holtmann "Criação...

Using this toolchain the newlib, uClibc, musl (as of release 1.1.4), and glibc libraries have been ported to the processor. Dynalith provides OpenIDEA...

Linux 8 (Ootpa) is based on Fedora 28, upstream Linux kernel 4.18, GCC 8.2, glibc 2.28, systemd 239, GNOME 3.28, and the switch to Wayland. The first beta...

differently sized equivalent) with its detection of integer bases. The glibc (GNU C Library) float parser uses the char-sequence string in "some unspecified...

convert time structure into calendar time value - similar to function in glibc and musl libraries. New <math.h> functions based on IEEE 754-2019 recommendations...

Modified General Public License Software GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP...

as library function or as system call. There were analogous utility in glibc called sprof to profile dynamic libraries. Gprof cannot measure time spent...

Linux, but it has been deprecated and does not have a wrapper function in glibc; it is usually unavailable due to many distributions configuring the kernel...

initial support committed on 25 June 2020[dead link] Operating system support glibc support for detecting AMX feature in CPUs committed on 25 June 2020 Linux...

malloc, memcpy, localtime, pthread_create, ... (up to 2000 subroutines) glibc aims to be fast, musl aims to be lightweight, uClibc targets embedded systems...

compliant libc 4.3BSD libc OS X 10.3 libc ffs Library function int Includes glibc. POSIX does not supply the complementary log base 2 / clz. 0 FreeBSD 5.3...

device runs Linux kernel 2.6 and internally uses Bash, BusyBox, U-boot, glibc and OpenSSL. Source code, where required by the licenses, is available from...

He also created an exploit in 2014 to demonstrate how a vulnerability in glibc known since 2005 could be used to gain root access on an affected machine...

malloc, memcpy, localtime, pthread_create, ... (up to 2000 subroutines) glibc aims to be fast, musl aims to be lightweight, uClibc targets embedded systems...

Munk, Carsten (11 April 2013). "Wayland utilizing Android GPU drivers on glibc based systems, Part 1". Mer Project. Archived from the original on 19 April...

pointers are larger than ints. Nevertheless, starting with version 2.8, glibc makes some changes to makecontext(3), to permit this on some 64-bit architectures...

Linux GNU Binutils – GNU software development tools for executable code glibc – GNU implementation of the standard C library musl – Implementation of...

Tables Archived 2020-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, AMD K7 section. "579838 – glibc not compatible with AMD Geode LX". Archived from the original on 30 Jul...

Known vulnerabilities at MITRE's CVE project. Secure Programming with GCC and GLibc Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine (2008), by Marcel Holtmann...

code page, currently equivalent to CCSID 13663. HKSCS support was added to glibc in 2000, but it has not been updated since then. HKSCS-2004 support is handled...

Modified General Public License Software GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP...

2016-11-19 at the Wayback Machine (ran a very old LXR version until 2017) Glibc 2.3.2 A few other LXRs from the same site (archives only shows directory...

most into the same parser. Microsoft MSVCRT does it with e, f, g, while glibc does so with all four. ISO C99 includes the inttypes.h header file that...

System V calling convention with regard to register use is adopted by glibc's libmvec and supported by GCC, Clang, and ICC. On 32-bit x86, GNU has a...

Solaris 8 Sparc/x86. OpenOffice.org version also supports generic Linux with Glibc 2.2.0, Mac OS X 10.2 for PowerPC with X11 in OOO 1.1.2. Product Update 5...

Nov 2022 RHEL 7 no longer supported (RedHat EOL); Linux minimum kernel/glibc = 4.18.0/2.28 RSA public/private key generation compile_code routine...

in GCC 9 (2019), allowing for cross-compilation of C/C++ applications. Glibc: The GNU C Library added C-SKY support in version 2.29. Operating Systems:...

Modified General Public License Software GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP...

from Foundation, AppKit or UIKit); on Linux, the developer needs to import Glibc, and ucrt on Windows.[citation needed] The objects of SQL are collections...

LPC chips Alternate C standard libraries: Bionic libc, dietlibc, EGLIBC, glibc, klibc, musl, Newlib, uClibc FAT file system libraries: EFSL, FatFs, Petit...

Libraries may provide assertion features as well. For example, in C using glibc with C99 support: #include <assert.h> int f(void) { int x = 5; x = x + 1;...

object file library DotGNU – replacement for Microsoft .NET GNU C Library (glibc) – POSIX-compliant C library GNU Classpath – libraries for Java GNU FriBidi...

even just the system library, as when compiling programs with uClibc on a glibc host. The Canadian Cross is a technique for building cross compilers for...

with other news reading services. Newsboat has been tested on Linux (with glibc and musl-libc), FreeBSD and macOS. The program can be installed from binary...

introduced that in 2001 leading to version 2.4 which was picked up by the glibc in that year. As the large-file support and large-disk support was introduced...

library providing data structures, event loops, and portability functions. glibc — GNU implementation of the C standard library GLFW — library for OpenGL...

memory String Time Variadic POSIX Implementations Bionic libhybris dietlibc glibc EGLIBC klibc Windows CRT musl Newlib uClibc Compilers ACK Borland Turbo...

Free space 75 MB 150 MB Linux Operating system Linux kernel 2.2.14 (with glibc 2.3.2, XFree86 3.3.6, GTK+ 2.0, fontconfig/xft and libstdc++ 5) CPU 233...

LGPL-2.1 GEGL C GPL-3.0 GIO C LGPL-2.1 GLib C LGPLv2.1 GNet C LGPL-2.1 glibc C LGPL-2.1-or-later GNU Libtool C GPL-3.0 GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic...

from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020. "debian-glibc: Bug#738575: pthread: segfault in libpthread on Intel Galileo board". Archived...

O_CLOEXEC in flags. dup3() was formally added to Linux kernel version 2.6.27 (glibc support is available on version 2.9 and above). int dup(int oldfd); int...

microarchitecture. Intel Goldmont microarchitecture also supports Intel MPX. glibc removed support in version 2.35. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 5.0 added...

C++, C# Operating system Microsoft Windows 10, Linux (CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / glibc 2.17), macOS 10.9, iOS 11.0, Android (operating system) 5.1, Xamarin Platform...

according to CPU capability. Examples include glibc, Intel MKL, and OpenBLAS. In addition, the library loader in glibc supports loading from alternative paths...

Carsten Munk (11 April 2013). "Wayland utilizing Android GPU drivers on glibc based systems, Part 1". Mer Project. Retrieved 3 July 2013. "libhybris in...

CentOS Linux 5.1 with the latest updates, typically running (kernel 2.4.20. glibc 2.3.2 and BIND 9.2.1 or later). The CPU should be 2.4 GHz or faster and...

German Bundestag, Ulrich Drepper, maintainer of the GNU C standard library Glibc and Lars Knoll, employee at Nokia and chief maintainer of the QT library...

This implementation directly uses the system calls and avoids the use of glibc, and thus creates thinner binaries than if the full support system needed...