I have found (more or less) an answer to my own question:
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/linux/programming/
is the "Linux Programmers Bounce Point" and it has some good references
including a reference for glibc.
The documentation in man is not always reasonable. It is good enough,
most of the time. I've found info so counter-intuitive for me that I have to
be desperate to use it.
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Glynn Clements wrote:
> Bug Hunter wrote:
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> > Also about the entire glibc stuff?
>
> What about glibc? There is reasonable documention in the info file,
> although when it comes to system calls (particularly multi-purpose
> calls such as ioctl), the behaviour depends upon the underlying OS.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
