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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-05-12 13:55:41 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-05-13 11:33:10 +0200
commitfe689ea47caaaecbd1c1075cfd2b54fac6b471e0 (patch)
treeb6177d41ba273dd7f7ee83e0dbdbcdde672c595f /man8
parent797981eb03812f1ef3fe0409e4082bb6ae429da7 (diff)
downloadman-pages-fe689ea47caaaecbd1c1075cfd2b54fac6b471e0.tar.gz
ld.so.8: Rewrite LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT description and note that .PID is appended
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man8')
-rw-r--r--man8/ld.so.89
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index fd9c4a8a1e..c0e2bca3ec 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -446,10 +446,13 @@ is ignored in secure-execution mode, unless the file
exists (the content of the file is irrelevant).
.TP
.BR LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT " (since glibc 2.1)"
-File in which
+By default,
.B LD_DEBUG
-output should be written.
-The default is standard error.
+output is written to standard error.
+If
+.B LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT
+is defined, then output is written to the pathname specified by its value,
+with the suffix "." (dot) followed by the process ID appended to the pathname.
.B LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT
is ignored in secure-execution mode.