From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld.so(8): make lack of separator escaping explicit Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:19:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5A78842E.2060402@bfs.de> References: <20180205161357.8131-1-vapier@gentoo.org> Reply-To: wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180205161357.8131-1-vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Frysinger Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Am 05.02.2018 17:13, schrieb Mike Frysinger: > 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. I am not sure that i understand that. You say that a libname like libfoo.1.2:3 is unparseable ? re, wh -- 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