On 18/10/23 16:06, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Adhemerval! > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 02:21:00PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: >> Recent glibc version removed support for LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, >> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS. >> >> Also adds a note for LD_HWCAP_MASk that since 2.26 the environment >> variable might be ignored if glibc does not support tunables. >> >> Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > Patch applied. Thanks! > > I've also applied some small fixes for consistency, and to use "semantic > newlines". See below. Thanks, I will keep this in mind for future patches. > > Cheers, > Alex > > P.S.: > I'm deprecating <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>; please use <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > --- > > diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 > index 5b5c22825..1999c24d6 100644 > --- a/man8/ld.so.8 > +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 > @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ .SS Secure-execution mode > .SS Environment variables > Among the more important environment variables are the following: > .TP > -.BR LD_ASSUME_KERNEL " (from glibc 2.2.3 to 2.36)" > +.BR LD_ASSUME_KERNEL " (from glibc 2.2.3 to glibc 2.36)" > Each shared object can inform the dynamic linker of the minimum kernel ABI > version that it requires. > (This requirement is encoded in an ELF note section that is viewable via > @@ -628,7 +628,9 @@ .SS Environment variables > is ignored in secure-execution mode. > .TP > .BR LD_HWCAP_MASK " (from glibc 2.1 to glibc 2.38)" > -Mask for hardware capabilities. Since glibc 2.26 the option might be ignored > +Mask for hardware capabilities. > +Since glibc 2.26, > +the option might be ignored > if glibc does not support tunables. > .TP > .BR LD_ORIGIN_PATH " (since glibc 2.1)" > @@ -703,7 +705,7 @@ .SS Environment variables > .\" (This is what seems to happen, from experimenting) > then all prelinking activity is traced. > .TP > -.BR LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS " (from glibc 2.3.3 to 2.35)" > +.BR LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS " (from glibc 2.3.3 to glibc 2.35)" > .\" http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html > .\" Subject: [PATCH] Support LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS > .\" Jakub Jelinek > > > $ MANWIDTH=72 man man-pages | sed -n '/Use semantic newlines/,/^$/p' > Use semantic newlines > In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started > on new lines, long sentences should be split into lines at > clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on), and long > clauses should be split at phrase boundaries. This convention, > sometimes known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see > the effect of patches, which often operate at the level of in‐ > dividual sentences, clauses, or phrases.
