Re: Linux API developer documentation

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_no_spam_here_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 04/08/05 

Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:53:52 GMT

John Hasler wrote:
> Edward Diener writes:
>> Where does one normally find the documentation to the core functions
>> of the Linux API ?
>
> Libc. On Debian you would install libc6-dev, glibc-doc, and
> manpages-dev. 'info libc' will then tell you everything could could
> possibly want to know. There is also a man page for each function.
> The 'apropos' command will help you find it. I also suggest that you
> Google 'POSIX'.

Thanks ! I am a C++ programmer so I will not have problems with that. I am
intirigued however by how other languages, such as Python and Java access
the Linux kernel. Is there no shared library with exported functions under
Linux which can be accessed by other languages ? If there is, is there no
general documentation other than the libc documentation about the kernel
functionality ? Sorry to be comparing the Linux core functionality to
Windows, which is what I have largely worked with, but in that OS there is
an API of base services which serves as the documentation for Windows core
functionality ( implemented in Windows shared libraries ). Does Linux have
such documentation or is it encompassed completely in the documentation for
libc. Maybe the POSIX documentation is the equivalent to what I am thinking.

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