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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-02-06 11:14:43 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2015-02-21 08:32:11 +0100
commitde2a932abd7538a6b8cfb9bbcc8cbfdbe40bf31e (patch)
treedfaad19db7413120ef047fa892fb5552cb1b6db3 /man8
parent549c992a6e9920d9c807815074c7b22682770b34 (diff)
downloadman-pages-de2a932abd7538a6b8cfb9bbcc8cbfdbe40bf31e.tar.gz
ld.so.8: (Briefly) document LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man8')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 7763d90701..0dae83926d 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -380,10 +380,17 @@ Show auxiliary array passed up from the kernel.
For security reasons, since glibc 2.3.5,
.B LD_SHOW_AUXV
is ignored for set-user-ID/set-group-ID binaries.
-.\" FIXME
-.\" Document LD_TRACE_PRELINKING (e.g.: LD_TRACE_PRELINKING=libx1.so ./prog)
-.\" Available since glibc 2.3
-.\" Also enables DL_DEBUG_PRELINK
+.TP
+.B LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
+(glibc since 2.4)
+Trace prelinking of the object whose name is assigned to
+this environment variable.
+(Use
+.BR ldd (1)
+to get a list of the objects that might be traced.)
+If the object name is not recognized,
+.\" (This is what seems to happen, from experimenting)
+then all prelinking activity is traced.
.TP
.B LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS
.\" http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html