From df7ef2672f164b4f2839740053d6784163d9eda1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:41:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ld.so.8: Note that LD_PRELOAD list separator can be space or colon 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 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