Should glibc stand for "GNU Core Library?"

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@gotplt.org
Thu Dec 1 13:31:00 GMT 2016


On Saturday 26 November 2016 03:04 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Every time I speak publicly about glibc I have to explain
> that it's not just an ISO C library, we have BSD APIs, GNU APIs, 
> POSIX APIs, networking APIs, identity management APIs, OS APIs
> (syscall wrappers), etc.
> 
> Does "The GNU C Library" encompass the whole of the project?
> 
> Just like GCC went from "The GNU C Compiler" to "The GNU Compiler
> Collection"... should glibc move from "The GNU C Library" to
> something like "The GNU Core Libraries" since the project provides
> key core libraries that provide much more than just ISO C.

Seems reasonable, what's the process to change it other than maybe
adding it in NEWS?

Siddhesh



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