[PATCH] ld.so(8): make lack of separator escaping explicit

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Make it clear that the delimiters in LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be escaped
so people don't try various methods (like \:) to workaround it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man8/ld.so.8 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 64e1fb2afdc3..fb568ef8721a 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ This is useful when using a debugger.
 .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 A list of directories in which to search for
 ELF libraries at execution time.
-The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons.
+The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons,
+and there is no support for escaping either separator.
 Similar to the
 .B PATH
 environment variable.
-- 
2.16.1

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