Appendix A: Acronyms and Partial Acronyms

AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
API	Application Programmer s Interface
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT&T	American Telephone and Telegraph
AWK	Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan
BASH	Bourne-Again SHell
BB	Basic Block
BBG	Basic Block Graph
BNF	Backus-Naur Form
BSD	Berkeley Software Distribution
BSS	Block Started by Symbol
CMU	Carnegie Mellon University
COW	Copy-On-Write
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSE	Common Subexpression Elimination
DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
DMA	Direct Memory Access
DNS	Domain Name Server
DL	Dynamically Loaded
DWARF	Debugging with Attribute Record Format
EMACS	EMACS Makes a Computer Slow
ELF	Executable and Linking Format
EOF	End of File
EXT2	2nd Extended Filesystem
EXT3	3rd Extended Filesystem
FIFO	First-In-First-Out
FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
FS	Field Separator
FSF	Free Software Foundation
GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
GCOV	GNU Coverage
GDB	GNU DeBugger
GID	Group ID
GLIBC	GNU C Library
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
GNU	GNU s Not Unix
GOT	Global Offset Table
GPROF	GNU Profiler
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTONL	Host TO Network Long
HTONS	Host TO Network Short
HUP	HangUP
IP	Internet Protocol
IBM	International Business Machines
IPC	Inter-Process Communication
IPv4	Internet Protocol Version 4
KB	KiloByte
LIFO	Last-In-First-Out
LISP	List Processor
MINIX	Miniature Unix
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMU	Memory Management Unit
MUTEX	Mutual Exclusion
NF	Number of Fields
NFS	Network File System
NPTL	Native POSIX Thread Library
NR	Number of Record
NTOHL	Network TO Host Long
NTOHS	Network TO Host Short
OFS	Output Field Separator
ORS	Output Record Separator
OSI	Open Source Initiative
PDP	Programmed Data Processor
PGRP	Process Group
PIC	Position Independent Code
PID	Process Identifier
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
PWD	Present Working Directory
QID	Queue Identifier
QPL	Qt Public License
RAM	Random Access Memory
REGEX	Regular Expression
RS	input Record Separator
SCSH	Scheme Shell
SED	Stream Editor
SPLINT	Secure Programming Lint
STDERR	Standard Error
STDIN	Standard Input
STDOUT	Standard Output
SYSV	System 5
TAR	Tape Archive
TCL	Tool Command Language
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TLB	Translation Lookaside Buffer
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UID	User ID
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time
VFS	Virtual File System
VI	Visual Interface
VPATH	Virtual Path