The <program> argument to ld-linux.so is not optional. While clarifying that, list supported options in the synopsis, improve the typography a little, and move information about how the dynamic linker is usually used from the SYNOPSIS to the DESCRIPTION section. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Not from Debian --- this is just me nitpicking to make the page look a little more conventional. The most iffy aspects of this patch are probably the use of \*(lq (is it portable enough?) and the inclusion of the --audit option without a detailed description in the OPTIONS section. Naturally I like it anyway. ;-) man8/ld.so.8 | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index 84278d0..f0718dd 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -3,22 +3,35 @@ .SH NAME ld.so, ld-linux.so* \- dynamic linker/loader .SH SYNOPSIS +.B /lib/ld-linux.so.* +.RB [ \-\-list ] +.RB [ \-\-verify ] +.RB [ \-\-library-path +.IR paths ] +.RB [ \-\-inhibit-rpath +.IR objects ] +.RB [ \-\-audit +.IR auditors ] +.I program +.RI [ arg ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The programs +.B ld.so +and +.B ld-linux.so* +find and load the shared libraries needed by a program, prepare +the program to run, and then run it. +.LP 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 .B .interp -section of the program is executed) or directly by running: -.P -.I /lib/ld-linux.so.* -[OPTIONS] [PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]] -.SH DESCRIPTION -The programs -.B ld.so -and -.B ld-linux.so* -find and load the shared libraries needed by a program, prepare -the program to run, and then run it. +section of the program is executed) or directly by running +.RB \*(lq /lib/ld-linux.so.* +.RI [ options ] +.I program +.RI [ arguments ]\*(rq. .LP Linux binaries require dynamic linking (linking at run time) unless the -- 1.7.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
