Re: history of libc

J. S. Connell (ankh@canuck.gen.nz)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:13:26 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:

> appears that glibc 1.0 was released in 1992, while Linux began in 1991, so
> I'm guessing that there was some other libc (minix?) before that. Also,
> I'm not sure that libc5 was GNU libc, or something else. Usually when

As far as I am aware, libc5 was not GNU, but instead H. J. Lu's brainchild.

--Jeffrey

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