Application Programming Interface

The LSB's ABI defines a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are grouped into reusable modular libraries. This set of LSB defined libraries provide the working set of APIs for applications to use to access the operating system.

System Interfaces

• System Interfaces (libc)

• Math (libm)

• Dynamic Loader (libdl)

• Encryption (libcrypt)

• pThreads (libpthreads)

• Asynchronous I/O (librt)

Auxiliary Interfaces

• Compression (libz)

• Utility Functions (libutil)

• Curses (libcurses)

Graphics Interfaces

• X Window System (libX11)

• X11 Extension (libXext)

• X11 Intrinsics (libXt)

• X11 Session Mgnt. (libSM)

• X11 Inter-Client Exchange (libICE)

• GL 3D Graphics (libGL)