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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/intro.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/intro.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f7160aa8 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/intro.3 @@ -0,0 +1,314 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: intro.3,v 1.38 2025/09/30 10:18:45 uwe Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)intro.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd April 14, 2021 +.Dt INTRO 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm intro +.Nd introduction to the system libraries +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This section provides an overview of the system libraries, their +functions, error returns and other common definitions and concepts. +Most of these functions are available from the standard C library, +.Em libc . +Other libraries, such as the math library, +.Em libm , +must be indicated at compile time with the +.Fl l +option of the compiler. +.\" .Pp +.\" A subset of the +.\" .Xr libc functions +.\" are available from Fortran; +.\" they are described separately in +.\" .Xr intro 3f . +.Pp +The various system libraries supplied in +.Nx +(followed by the linker flags) are: +.Bl -tag -width "libc (-lc)" +.It Em libasn1 Pq Fl l Ns Ar asn1 +The abstract syntax notation (ASN) library provides routines for the +specification of abstract data types. +.It Em libbz2 Pq Fl l Ns Ar bz2 +Block-sorting compressor library providing routines for fast and +efficient compression. +.It Em libc Pq Fl l Ns Ar c +The standard C library. +When using the C compiler +.Xr cc 1 , +it is not necessary to supply the linker flag +.Fl l Ns Ar c +for these functions. +There are several subsystems included inside +.Em libc : +.Bl -tag -width "XXXXXX" +.It standard I/O routines +see +.Xr stdio 3 +.It database routines +see +.Xr db 3 +.It bit operators +see +.Xr bitstring 3 +.It string operators +see +.Xr string 3 +.It character tests and character operators +.It encryption and hash routines +see +.Xr md4 3 +and +.Xr md5 3 . +.It storage allocation +see +.Xr mpool 3 +and +.Xr malloc 3 +.It time functions +see +.Xr time 3 +.It signal handling +see +.Xr signal 3 +.El +.It Em libcom_err Pq Fl l Ns Ar com_err +The common error description library. +See +.Xr com_err 3 . +.It Em libcompat Pq Fl l Ns Ar compat +Functions which are obsolete but are available for compatibility with +.Bx 4.3 . +In particular, a number of system call interfaces provided in previous +releases of +.Bx +have been included for source code compatibility. +Use of these routines should, for the most part, be avoided. +The manual page entry +for each compatibility routine indicates the proper interface to use. +.It Em libcrypt Pq Fl l Ns Ar crypt +The crypt library. +See +.Xr crypt 3 . +.It Em libcrypto Pq Fl l Ns Ar crypto +The OpenSSL cryptographic library. +See +.Xr crypto 7 . +.It Em libcurses Pq Fl l Ns Ar curses Fl l Ns Ar terminfo +Terminal independent screen management routines +for two dimensional non-bitmap display terminals. +See +.Xr curses 3 . +.It Em libdes Pq Fl l Ns Ar des +The OpenSSL cryptographic library for the DES algorithms. +See +.Xr des 3 . +.It Em libdm Pq Fl l Ns Ar dm +The device-mapper driver access library used for communication with +kernel driver +.Xr dm 4 +and for +.Xr lvm 8 +subsystem. +.It Em libedit Pq Fl l Ns Ar edit +The command-line editor or editline library. +The editline library provides generic editing and history functions. +See +.Xr editline 3 . +.It Em libform Pq Fl l Ns Ar form +The curses form library provides a terminal-independent form system +using the curses library. +The form library provides facilities for defining forms on terminals. +See +.Xr forms 3 . +.It Em libgssapi Pq Fl l Ns Ar gssapi +The Generic Security Services (GSS) API library. +This library provides +verification services to applications and usually sits above the +cryptographic libraries. +.It Em libhdb Pq Fl l Ns Ar hdb +The Heimdal Kerberos 5 authentication/authorisation database access +library. +.It Em libintl Pq Fl l Ns Ar intl +The internationalized message handling library. +See +.Xr gettext 3 . +.It Em libipsec Pq Fl l Ns Ar ipsec +The IPsec policy control library. +See +.Xr ipsec_set_policy 3 +and +.Xr ipsec_strerror 3 . +.It Em libkadm5clnt Pq Fl l Ns Ar kadm5clnt +The Kerberos 5 administration client library. +.It Em libkadm5srv Pq Fl l Ns Ar kadm5srv +The Kerberos 5 administration server library. +See +.Xr kadm5_pwcheck 3 . +.It Em libkafs Pq Fl l Ns Ar kafs +The Kerberos IV AFS library. +See +.Xr kafs 3 . +.It Em libkdb Pq Fl l Ns Ar kdb +The Kerberos IV authentication/authorisation database access library. +.It Em libkrb Pq Fl l Ns Ar krb +The Kerberos IV library. +.It Em libkrb5 Pq Fl l Ns Ar krb5 +The Kerberos 5 library. +See +.Xr krb5 3 . +.It Em libkstream Pq Fl l Ns Ar kstream +Kerberos IV encrypted stream library. +.It Em libkvm Pq Fl l Ns Ar kvm +Kernel data access library. +See +.Xr kvm 3 . +.It Em libl Pq Fl l Ns Ar l +The library for +.Xr lex 1 . +.It Em libm Pq Fl l Ns Ar m +The math library. +See +.Xr math 3 . +.\" The math library is loaded as needed by the Pascal compiler +.\" .Xr pc 1 , +.\" but not by the C compiler which requires the +.\" .Fl l Ns Ar m +.\" flag (see +.\" .Xr math 3 ) . +.\" .It Em libmp Pq Fl l Ns Ar mp +.\" .It Em libom +.\" Old math library. +.\" .It Em libplot Pq Fl l Ns Ar plot +.\" Device independent plotting functions (see +.\" .Xr plot 3 ) . +.\" .It Em libplotf77 Pq Fl l Ns Ar plotf77 +.\" The device independent plotting functions for fortran (see +.\" .Xr plot 3 ) . +.\" .It Em libresolv Pq Fl l Ns Ar resolv +.\" Routines for network address resolution. +.It Em libmenu Pq Fl l Ns Ar menu +The curses menu library. +See +.Xr menus 3 . +.It Em libnvmm Pq Fl l Ns Ar nvmm +.Nx +Virtualization API. +See +.Xr libnvmm 3 . +.It Em libossaudio Pq Fl l Ns Ar ossaudio +Open Sound System compatibility library. +See +.Xr ossaudio 3 . +.It Em libpanel Pq Fl l Ns Ar panel +The curses panel library. +See +.Xr panel 3 . +.It Em libpcap Pq Fl l Ns Ar pcap +The packet capture library. +See +.Xr pcap 3 . +.It Em libpci Pq Fl l Ns Ar pci +The PCI bus access library. +See +.Xr pci 3 . +.It Em libposix Pq Fl l Ns Ar posix +The POSIX compatibility library provides a compatibility interface for +POSIX functions which differ from the standard BSD interfaces. +See +.Xr chown 2 +and +.Xr rename 2 . +.It Em libresolv Pq Fl l Ns Ar resolv +The DNS resolver library. +.It Em librmt Pq Fl l Ns Ar rmt +Remote magnetic tape library. +See +.Xr rmtops 3 . +.It Em libroken Pq Fl l Ns Ar roken +A library containing compatibility functions used by Kerberos. +It implements functionality required by the Kerberos implementation not +implemented in the standard +.Nx +libraries. +.It Em librpcsvc Pq Fl l Ns Ar rpcsvc +The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services library. +See +.Xr rpc 3 . +.It Em libskey Pq Fl l Ns Ar skey +The S/Key one-time password library. +See +.Xr skey 3 . +.It Em libsl Pq Fl l Ns Ar sl +.It Em libss Pq Fl l Ns Ar ss +.It Em libssl Pq Fl l Ns Ar ssl +The secure sockets layer (SSL) library. +See +.Xr ssl 7 . +.It Em libtelnet Pq Fl l Ns Ar telnet +The telnet library. +.It Em libterminfo Pq Fl l Ns Ar terminfo +The terminal-independent operation library. +See +.Xr terminfo 3 . +.It Em libusbhid Pq Fl l Ns Ar usbhid +The Universal Serial Bus (USB) Human Interface Devices access library. +See +.Xr libusbhid 3 . +.It Em libutil Pq Fl l Ns Ar util +The system utilities library. +See +.Xr util 3 . +.It Em libwrap Pq Fl l Ns Ar wrap +The TCP wrappers library. +See +.Xr hosts_access 3 . +.It Em liby Pq Fl l Ns Ar y +The library for +.Xr yacc 1 . +.It Em libz Pq Fl l Ns Ar z +General-purpose compression library. +See +.Xr zlib 3 . +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cc 1 , +.Xr ld 1 , +.Xr nm 1 , +.Xr rtld 1 , +.Xr intro 2 +.Sh HISTORY +An +.Nm +manual appeared in +.At 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