From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: [PATCH] ld.so(8): make lack of separator escaping explicit Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:13:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20180205161357.8131-1-vapier@gentoo.org> Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Make it clear that the delimiters in LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be escaped so people don't try various methods (like \:) to workaround it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger --- man8/ld.so.8 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index 64e1fb2afdc3..fb568ef8721a 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ This is useful when using a debugger. .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH A list of directories in which to search for ELF libraries at execution time. -The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons. +The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons, +and there is no support for escaping either separator. Similar to the .B PATH environment variable. -- 2.16.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html