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Berkeley Unix
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   The GNU C library defines facilities from some versions of Unix which
are not formally standardized, specifically from the 4.2 BSD, 4.3 BSD,
and 4.4 BSD Unix systems (also known as "Berkeley Unix") and from
"SunOS" (a popular 4.2 BSD derivative that includes some Unix System V
functionality).  These systems support most of the ISO C and POSIX
facilities, and 4.4 BSD and newer releases of SunOS in fact support
them all.

   The BSD facilities include symbolic links (Note: Symbolic Links),
the `select' function (Note: Waiting for I/O), the BSD signal
functions (Note: BSD Signal Handling), and sockets (Note: Sockets).