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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-08-26 15:41:30 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-08-27 00:53:20 +0200
commitdf7ef2672f164b4f2839740053d6784163d9eda1 (patch)
tree8572b242281a8abfa7ae1c78a9ba89c184bd9fd1 /man8
parent24d989e596f2ab2c97a2033babd532bae59bacc4 (diff)
ld.so.8: Note that LD_PRELOAD list separator can be space or colon
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" This is in the public domain
-.TH LD.SO 8 2012-04-17 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH LD.SO 8 2012-08-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ld.so, ld-linux.so* \- dynamic linker/loader
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ Similar to the
environment variable.
.TP
.B LD_PRELOAD
-A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
+A list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
libraries to be loaded before all others.
+The items of the list can be separated by spaces or colons.
This can be used to selectively override functions in other shared libraries.
For set-user-ID/set-group-ID ELF binaries,
only libraries in the standard search