ld.so.8: LD_DEBUG is effective in secure-execution mode if /etc/suid-debug exists

Reported-by: Silvan Jegen <s.jegen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 47efd5c039a77b23137bf52f0eb3ca56fcbaf9e0..65446a60c4440864bec4d230df0e83793b02a3ef 100644 (file)
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -336,7 +336,9 @@ prints a help message about which categories can be specified in this
 environment variable.
 Since glibc 2.3.4,
 .B LD_DEBUG
-is ignored in secure-execution mode.
+is ignored in secure-execution mode, unless the file
+.IR /etc/suid\-debug
+exists (the content of the file is irrelevant).
 .TP
 .B LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT
 (glibc since 2.1)