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Additions are welcome. Send appropriate information to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.

(2)

Actually, the terminal-specific functions are implemented with IOCTLs on many platforms.

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Now you might ask why this information is duplicated. The answer is that we want to make it possible to link directly with these shared objects.

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There is a second explanation: we were too lazy to change the Makefiles to allow the generation of shared objects not starting with `lib' but don't tell this to anybody.