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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-07-22 20:25:37 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-07-22 20:25:37 +0200
commitef74d4ad5e1e2490ec0a2d532262c3c0e481916d (patch)
treea14046b40d7ae6766b96df62a0f0ea51a35c7ea1 /man8
parent5ad225a3286be5926691dfedf3b38537a89e91eb (diff)
downloadman-pages-ef74d4ad5e1e2490ec0a2d532262c3c0e481916d.tar.gz
ld.so.8: Minor changes in LD_ASSUME_KERNEL text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man8')
-rw-r--r--man8/ld.so.86
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index ca3d075a99..d807bd4f51 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -200,8 +200,10 @@ There are four important environment variables.
(glibc since 2.2.3)
Each shared library 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 typically named
-.IR .note.ABI-tag .)
+(This requirement is encoded in an ELF note section that is viewable via
+.IR "readelf\ \-n"
+as a section labeled
+.BR NT_GNU_ABI_TAG .)
At run time,
the dynamic linker determines the ABI version of the running kernel and
will reject loading shared libraries that specify minimum ABI versions