From cd6dddf613db1922fa481efde9f64a22e49ef3b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:38:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Various wording improvements.

---
 man8/ld.so.8 | 30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 005de541d..f2916e22e 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 .\" This is in the public domain
-.TH LD.SO 8 2007-05-31 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH LD.SO 8 2008-04-18 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ld.so, ld-linux.so* \- dynamic linker/loader
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly through running some
+The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly by running some
 dynamically linked program or library (in which case no command-line options
 to the dynamic linker can be passed and, in the ELF case, the dynamic linker
 which is stored in the
@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ and
 .IR /etc/ld.so.conf .
 .LP
 The shared libraries needed by the program are searched for
-in various places:
-.IP o
-(ELF only) Using the DT_RPATH dynamic section attribute
+in the following order:
+.IP o 3
+(ELF only) Using the directories specified in the
+DT_RPATH dynamic section attribute
 of the binary if present and DT_RUNPATH attribute does not exist.
 Use of DT_RPATH is deprecated.
 .IP o
@@ -52,14 +53,15 @@ Using the environment variable
 Except if the executable is a set-user-ID/set-group-ID binary,
 in which case it is ignored.
 .IP o
-(ELF only) Using the DT_RUNPATH dynamic section attribute
+(ELF only) Using the directories specified in the
+DT_RUNPATH dynamic section attribute
 of the binary if present.
 .IP o
 From the cache file
 .I /etc/ld.so.cache
 which contains a compiled list of candidate libraries previously found
 in the augmented library path.
-If, however, the binary was linked with
+If, however, the binary was linked with the
 .B \-z nodeflib
 linker option, libraries in the default library paths are skipped.
 .IP o
@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ In the default path
 .IR /lib ,
 and then
 .IR /usr/lib .
-If the binary was linked with
+If the binary was linked with the
 .B \-z nodeflib
 linker option, this step is skipped.
 .SS $ORIGIN and rpath
@@ -141,14 +143,15 @@ directories that are also set-user-ID will be loaded.
 .TP
 .B LD_BIND_NOW
 (libc5; glibc since 2.1.1)
-If set to non-empty string, causes the dynamic linker to resolve all symbols
-at program startup instead of deferring function call resolval to the point
+If set to a non-empty string,
+causes the dynamic linker to resolve all symbols
+at program startup instead of deferring function call resolution to the point
 when they are first referenced.
 This is useful when using a debugger.
 .TP
 .B LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
 (ELF only)
-If set to non-empty string, causes the program to list its dynamic library
+If set to a non-empty string, causes the program to list its dynamic library
 dependencies, as if run by
 .BR ldd (1),
 instead of running normally.
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ many obsolete or only for internal use.
 .TP
 .B LD_WARN
 (ELF only)(glibc since 2.1.3)
-If set to non-empty string, warn about unresolved symbols.
+If set to a non-empty string, warn about unresolved symbols.
 .TP
 .B LD_NOWARN
 (a.out only)(libc5)
@@ -190,7 +193,8 @@ is ignored for set-user-ID/set-group-ID binaries.
 .TP
 .B LD_VERBOSE
 (glibc since 2.1)
-If set to non-empty string, output symbol versioning information about the
+If set to a non-empty string,
+output symbol versioning information about the
 program if querying information about the program (i.e. either
 .B LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
 has been set, or