On 06 Feb 2018 09:46, walter harms wrote: > Am 05.02.2018 22:48, schrieb Mike Frysinger: > > Make it clear that the delimiters in LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and > > LD_AUDIT cannot be escaped so people don't try various methods (such > > as \:) to workaround it. > > > > --- 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. > > @@ -310,7 +311,8 @@ as shell variables!) > > .B LD_PRELOAD > > A list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared > > objects to be loaded before all others. > > -The items of the list can be separated by spaces or colons. > > +The items of the list can be separated by spaces or colons, > > +and there is no support for escaping either separator. > > This can be used to selectively override functions in other shared objects. > > The objects are searched for using the rules given under DESCRIPTION. > > .IP > > @@ -352,7 +354,8 @@ many obsolete or only for internal use. > > A colon-separated list of user-specified, ELF shared objects > > to be loaded before all others in a separate linker namespace > > (i.e., one that does not intrude upon the normal symbol bindings that > > -would occur in the process). > > +would occur in the process) > > +and there is no support for escaping the separator. > > These objects can be used to audit the operation of the dynamic linker. > > .IP > > .B LD_AUDIT > > Everything is alright. NTL i would suggest to make consequences more clear, e.g.: > > "There is \fBno way\rR to have libraryname like libfoo-1:2. In this case ld.so will > always search for \fBibfoo-1\fR and \fB2\fR." could do. lets see what Michael thinks. -mike
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