ld.so.8: Describe interpretation of slashes in dependency strings

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index f0ecde56473a1c5cc377986d84f1d462b9fc99ce..1bfa55b887db42142434b99f24cc2ece8e0fe1a8 100644 (file)
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -40,8 +40,16 @@ support files and programs
 and
 .IR /etc/ld.so.conf .
 .LP
-The shared libraries needed by the program are searched for
-in the following order:
+When resolving library dependencies,
+the dynamic linker first inspects each dependency
+string to see if it contains a slash (this can occur if
+a library pathname containing slashes was specified at link time).
+If a slash is found, then the dependency string is interpreted as
+a (relative or absolute) pathname,
+and the library is loaded using that pathname.
+.LP
+If a library dependency does not contain a slash,
+then it is searched for in the following order:
 .IP o 3
 (ELF only) Using the directories specified in the
 DT_RPATH dynamic section attribute