User guide

The GNU C Library

• sched_getcpu

• accept4

• fallocate

• fallocate64

• inotify_init1

• dup3

• epoll_create1

• pipe2

• signalfd

• eventfd

• eventfd_read

• eventfd_write

• Added new checking functions, namely:

• asprintf

• dprintf

• obstack_printf

• vasprintf

• vdprintf

• obstack_vprintf

• fread

• fread_unlocked

• open*

• mq_open

For a more detailed list of updates to the GNU C Library, refer to /usr/share/doc/

glibc-version/NEWS . All changes as of version 2.6 apply to the GNU C Library in Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 6. Some of these changes have also been backported to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

versions of glibc.

3.3.1.2. GNU C Library Documentation

The GNU C Library is fully documented in the GNU C Library manual; to access this manual locally,

install glibc-devel and run info libc. An upstream version of this book is also available here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html