>From Aurelian Jarno's update to the Debian glibc package, r1812 (ld.so.8: Update the manpage, 2006-10-01). Presumably the text is originally from the Red Hat document "What is LD_ASSUME_KERNEL and what does it affect?", by Eric Paris and copyright © Red Hat Inc, 2004. --- Eric, is it ok to include this text in the (public domain) ld.so.8 manpage? To be safe, I'm withholding my sign-off for now, but I'm hoping it should be ok. man8/ld.so.8 | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index 9fc96c9..6b5799b 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -190,6 +190,18 @@ for a.out binaries only. Old versions of ld\-linux.so.1 also supported .BR LD_ELF_PRELOAD . .TP +.B LD_ASSUME_KERNEL +(glibc since 2.2.3) +Every DSO (Dynamic Shared Object, aka shared library) can tell the dynamic linker in glibc which +minimum OS ABI version is needed. The information about the minimum OS ABI version is encoded in +a ELF note section usually named .note.ABI-tag. This is used to determine which library to load +when multiple version of the same library is installed on the system. + +The +.B LD_ASSUME_KERNEL +environment variable overrides the kernel version used by the dynamic linker to determine which +library to load. +.TP .B LD_AUDIT (glibc since 2.4) A colon-separated list of user-specified, ELF shared objects -- 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
