GLIBC  THE ,,GNU ;,C ,LIBRARY  IS THE
;,C RUNTIME NEARLY EVERY ,LINUX PROCESS
IS BORN INTO3 STARTED BY ,ROLAND
,MC,GRATH FOR THE ,,FSF IN #AIHG#HH FOR
THE ,,GNU SYSTEM1 THEN ADOPTED BY ,LINUX
DISTROS IN THE MID-#AIIJ;S AS 8GLIBC #B0
AFTER THE COMMUNITY'S LIBC#D_/LIBC#E
FORK WAS FOLDED BACK UPSTREAM4 ,EVERY
PRINTF1 MALLOC1 OPEN WRAPPER1 GETPWNAM1
AND ,,DNS LOOKUP IN A NORMAL BINARY GOES
THROUGH IT  IT IS THE LIBRARY THE
KERNEL'S SYSCALL INTERFACE IS DRESSED UP
IN4
,WHAT IT PROVIDES
,THREE THINGS ANCHOR IT3 LIBC4SO4#F  THE
SHARED LIBRARY CARRYING ,,ISO ;,C "6
,,POSIX "6 ,,GNU EXTENSIONS2
LD-LINUX-X#HF-#FD4SO4#B  THE DYNAMIC
LOADER THAT MAPS SHARED LIBRARIES AT
EXEC2 AND ,,NSS  THE ,NAME ,SERVICE
,SWITCH THAT LETS _/ETC_/PASSWD1 ,,LDAP1
AND SYSTEMD RESOLVE THROUGH ONE
GETPWNAM4 ,SYMBOL VERSIONING IS ITS
QUIET SUPERPOWER3 A BINARY BUILT AGAINST
GLIBC #B4AG STILL RUNS AGAINST #B4DB
BECAUSE EACH SYMBOL CARRIES ITS VERSION 
WHICH IS ALSO WHY BINARIES CAN'T GO
BACKWARDS4
,THE FORK AND THE RIVALS
GLIBC'S OWN HISTORY INCLUDES A
FORK-AND-MERGE3 ,DEBIAN RAN EGLIBC
"<#BJJI#BJAD"> OVER MAINTAINER DISPUTES
BEFORE RE-MERGING4 ,ITS RIVALS DEFINE
ITS TRADE-OFFS3 MUSL "<,ALPINE1 STATIC
LINKING  SMALL AND STRICT-,,POSIX">1
U,CLIBC-NG "<EMBEDDED">1 ,GOOGLE'S
,BIONIC "<,ANDROID">4 ,THE ,,LFS BUILD
TREATS IT AS SACRED GROUND  CHAPTER #C'S
--WITH-GLIBC-VERSION EXISTS BECAUSE THE
TOOLCHAIN AND LIBC PIN EACH OTHER2 GET
THAT RELATIONSHIP WRONG AND NOTHING
COMPILES TWICE4
,SEE ALSO
- ,,LFS ,CROSS-,TOOLCHAIN  THE BOOTSTRAP
THAT BUILDS IT - ;,C ,TOOLCHAIN  THE
PIPELINE IT TERMINATES - ,INSIDE A
,LINUX ,SYSTEM  THE LOADER AT EXEC TIME
- ,LINUX  ,SYSTEMD  ,,GNU