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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-27 10:37:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 14:54:19 -0500 |
| commit | 65f6a3ee6ddf0c2d86cfb5bf54c5ca0306589a53 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b0fb322057b4d8b648d052ab0e8aae08664f622 /man3 | |
| parent | 240c2fa0fa10706f6be0e9350365c0f0b4a5ee9c (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-65f6a3ee6ddf0c2d86cfb5bf54c5ca0306589a53.tar.gz | |
dlopen.3: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected once, at program start-up
Make it clear that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected *once*, at
program start-up. (Verified from source and by experiment.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michael B. Trausch <mike@trausch.us>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/dlopen.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/dlopen.3 b/man3/dlopen.3 index 9b2522b32c..d302360938 100644 --- a/man3/dlopen.3 +++ b/man3/dlopen.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" Modified by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 2003-05-16. .\" Modified by Walter Harms: dladdr, dlvsym .\" -.TH DLOPEN 3 2008-06-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH DLOPEN 3 2008-10-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME dladdr, dlclose, dlerror, dlopen, dlsym, dlvsym \- programming interface to dynamic linking loader @@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ for further details): contains a DT_RPATH tag, and does not contain a DT_RUNPATH tag, then the directories listed in the DT_RPATH tag are searched. .IP o -If the environment variable +If, at the time that the program was started, the environment variable .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH -is defined to contain a colon-separated list of directories, +was defined to contain a colon-separated list of directories, then these are searched. (As a security measure this variable is ignored for set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs.) |