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| Kermit the frog | 9.4 Searching and Sorting Example |
| kernel call | 25.5 System Calls |
| kernel header files | C.4 Specific advice for GNU/Linux systems |
| KILL character | 17.4.9.1 Characters for Input Editing |
| kill signal | 24.2.2 Termination Signals |
| killing a process | 24.6.2 Signaling Another Process |
| Korn Shell | 10.1 Wildcard Matching |
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| LANG environment variable | 8.1.1 The catgets function family |
| LANG environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| launching jobs | 27.6.3 Launching Jobs |
| LC_ALL environment variable | 8.1.1 The catgets function family |
| LC_ALL environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_COLLATE environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_CTYPE environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_MESSAGES environment variable | 8.1.1 The catgets function family |
| LC_MESSAGES environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_MONETARY environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_NUMERIC environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| LC_TIME environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| leap second | 21.4.3 Broken-down Time |
| length of string | 5.1 Representation of Strings |
| level, for socket options | 16.12 Socket Options |
| LGPL, Lesser General Public License | G. GNU Lesser General Public License |
| library | 1. Introduction |
| limit | 22.2 Limiting Resource Usage |
| limits on resource usage | 22.2 Limiting Resource Usage |
| limits, file name length | 31.6 Limits on File System Capacity |
| limits, floating types | A.5.3 Floating Type Macros |
| limits, integer types | A.5.2 Range of an Integer Type |
| limits, link count of files | 31.6 Limits on File System Capacity |
| limits, number of open files | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| limits, number of processes | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| limits, number of supplementary group IDs | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| limits, pipe buffer size | 31.6 Limits on File System Capacity |
| limits, POSIX | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| limits, program argument size | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| limits, terminal input queue | 31.6 Limits on File System Capacity |
| limits, time zone name length | 31.1 General Capacity Limits |
| line buffered stream | 12.20.1 Buffering Concepts |
| line speed | 17.4.8 Line Speed |
| lines (in a text file) | 12.17 Text and Binary Streams |
| link | 11.2.1 Directories |
| link, hard | 14.4 Hard Links |
| link, soft | 14.5 Symbolic Links |
| link, symbolic | 14.5 Symbolic Links |
| linked channels | 13.5.1 Linked Channels |
| listening (sockets) | 16.9.2 Listening for Connections |
| literals | 3.1 Process Memory Concepts |
| little-endian | 16.6.5 Byte Order Conversion |
| LNEXT character | 17.4.9.4 Other Special Characters |
| load average | 22.5 Learn about the processors available |
| local namespace, for sockets | 16.5 The Local Namespace |
| local network address number | 16.6.2.1 Internet Host Addresses |
| local time | 21.4 Calendar Time |
| locale categories | 7.3 Categories of Activities that Locales Affect |
| locale, changing | 7.4 How Programs Set the Locale |
| locales | 7. Locales and Internationalization |
| locking pages | 3.4 Locking Pages |
| logarithm functions | 19.4 Exponentiation and Logarithms |
| login name | 29.1 User and Group IDs |
| login name, determining | 29.11 Identifying Who Logged In |
| LOGNAME environment variable | 25.4.2 Standard Environment Variables |
| long jumps | 23. Non-Local Exits |
| long-named options | 25.1.1 Program Argument Syntax Conventions |
| longjmp | 3.2.5.2 Advantages of alloca |
| loss of data on sockets | 16.1 Socket Concepts |
| lost resource signal | 24.2.6 Operation Error Signals |
| lower-case character | 4.1 Classification of Characters |
| lower-case character | 4.3 Character class determination for wide characters |
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| macros | 3.2.4.5 Obstack Functions and Macros |
| main function | 25.1 Program Arguments |
| malloc debugger | 3.2.3 Allocation Debugging |
| malloc function | 3.2.2 Unconstrained Allocation |
| mantissa (of floating point number) | A.5.3.1 Floating Point Representation Concepts |
| matching failure, in scanf | 12.14.1 Formatted Input Basics |
| math errors | 19.7 Known Maximum Errors in Math Functions |
| mathematical constants | 19.1 Predefined Mathematical Constants |
| maximum | 20.8.7 Miscellaneous FP arithmetic functions |
| maximum field width (scanf) | 12.14.2 Input Conversion Syntax |
| maximum limit | 22.2 Limiting Resource Usage |
| maximum possible integer | 20.1 Integers |
| measurements of floating types | A.5.3 Floating Type Macros |
| memory allocation | 3. Virtual Memory Allocation And Paging |
| memory lock | 3.4 Locking Pages |
| memory mapped file | 3.1 Process Memory Concepts |
| memory mapped I/O | 3.1 Process Memory Concepts |
| memory page | 22.4.1 Overview about traditional Unix memory handling |
| merging of signals | 24.4.5 Signals Close Together Merge into One |
| MIN termios slot | 17.4.10 Noncanonical Input |
| minimum | 20.8.7 Miscellaneous FP arithmetic functions |
| minimum field width (printf) | 12.12.2 Output Conversion Syntax |
| minimum possible integer | 20.1 Integers |
| mixing descriptors and streams | 13.5 Dangers of Mixing Streams and Descriptors |
| modem disconnect | 17.4.6 Control Modes |
| modem status lines | 17.4.6 Control Modes |
| monetary value formatting | 7.6.1 localeconv: It is portable but … |
| multi-threaded application | 12.5 Streams and Threads |
| multibyte character | 6.1 Introduction to Extended Characters |
| multibyte character string | 5.1 Representation of Strings |
| multibyte string | 5.1 Representation of Strings |
| multiple names for one file | 14.4 Hard Links |
| multiplexing input | 13.8 Waiting for Input or Output |
| multiply-add | 20.8.7 Miscellaneous FP arithmetic functions |
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