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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-03-15 09:49:20 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-03-22 08:24:07 +0100
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dlopen.3: RTLD_NEXT works for symbols generally, not just functions
The common use case is for functions, but RTLD_NEXT also applies to variable symbols. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ as well as symbols in libraries that were dynamically loaded with the
flag.
.TP
.BR RTLD_NEXT
-Find the next occurrence of a function in the search order
+Find the next occurrence of the desired symbol in the search order
after the current library.
This allows one to provide a wrapper
around a function in another shared library, so that, for example,