UNIX to Linux

Chapter 3. Analysis

In this chapter

3.1	Linux Standards	page 53
3.2	GNU libc	page 54
3.3	GNU Scientific Library	page 57
3.4	Shared Libraries	page 58
3.5	Library Versioning	page 59
3.6	Dynamic Linker (or Runtime Linker)	page 69
3.7	System Calls	page 75
3.8	Large Page Support	page 75
3.9	The Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL)	page 81
3.10	Internationalization (I18N) and Localization	page 83
3.11	Big/Little-Endian Environment	page 90
3.12	32- to 64-Bit Migration	page 91
3.13	Summary	page 94

<feature><title></title>

After the initial scoping work is done, we need to perform a more detailed analysis of the application. The analysis includes but is not limited to examining the application in terms of use of application programming interfaces (APIs), dynamic library loading interfaces, threads, ...