diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 61fc422c5..329d1f573 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -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