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| author | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-06 19:19:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-06 19:19:48 +0000 |
| commit | 3f162cb85dafb6f4c8537b3e606c2ccdaa12a424 (patch) | |
| tree | a6b4b2576ebd3b2a11ee774c4c4c22866c4c05b5 /libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 | |
| parent | 4690560d06982b398ace1f6da555bfad95e82024 (diff) | |
| download | src-test2-3f162cb85dafb6f4c8537b3e606c2ccdaa12a424.tar.gz src-test2-3f162cb85dafb6f4c8537b3e606c2ccdaa12a424.zip | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 b/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 index dad1a6306615..8b1c6a9c9c13 100644 --- a/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 +++ b/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.1 @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ .Nm rtld .Nd run-time link-editor .Sh DESCRIPTION +The .Nm -is a self-contained shared object providing run-time +utility is a self-contained shared object providing run-time support for loading and link-editing shared objects into a process' address space. It is also commonly known as the dynamic linker. @@ -56,8 +57,9 @@ to be called on a per-object basis, giving a shared object an opportunity to perform any extra set-up before execution of the program proper begins. This is useful for C++ libraries that contain static constructors. .Pp +The .Nm -itself is loaded by the kernel together with any dynamically-linked +utility itself is loaded by the kernel together with any dynamically-linked program that is to be executed. The kernel transfers control to the dynamic linker. @@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ file prepared by the .Xr ldconfig 8 utility. .Pp +The .Nm +utility recognizes a number of environment variables that can be used to modify its behaviour as follows: .Pp |