From 5f2efacf9f795c17e41cfa8faa28d78dc36890f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:16:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ld.so.8: wfix: fix a clumsy wording that is hard to parse Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man8/ld.so.8 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index b1eb0fd442..439f304c28 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -411,12 +411,13 @@ Then there are lots of more or less obscure variables, many obsolete or only for internal use. .TP .BR LD_AUDIT " (since glibc 2.4)" -A colon-separated list of user-specified, ELF shared objects +A list of user-specified, ELF shared objects to be loaded before all others in a separate linker namespace (i.e., one that does not intrude upon the normal symbol bindings that would occur in the process) -and there is no support for escaping the separator. These objects can be used to audit the operation of the dynamic linker. +The items in the list are colon-separated, +and there is no support for escaping the separator. .IP .B LD_AUDIT is ignored in secure-execution mode. -- 2.47.2