Re: [PATCH] ld.so.8: Explain than empty entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH means cwd

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Hello Arkadiusz

On 6/24/20 12:59 AM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote:
> If this was ever going to change the test case is very simple:
> 
> /tmp $ touch libc.so.6
> /tmp $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=: sh
> sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: file too short
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch, and the succinct test/demo in the commit 
message!

Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael
> ---
>  man8/ld.so.8 | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
> index 9034612..2e98b7f 100644
> --- a/man8/ld.so.8
> +++ b/man8/ld.so.8
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ 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,
>  and there is no support for escaping either separator.
> +A zero-length directory name indicates the current working directory.
>  .IP
>  This variable is ignored in secure-execution mode.
>  .IP
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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