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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2020-10-08 15:33:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2020-10-08 15:44:23 +0200 |
| commit | ca52c56abf50b89a95dc2a4a5504c0d7d3862961 (patch) | |
| tree | b4d20023f5df77ab1e96c96a0def463b0591b044 | |
| parent | 1a945ba5ad2d05a560e10bcd4c8bf2c94e7d8d53 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-ca52c56abf50b89a95dc2a4a5504c0d7d3862961.tar.gz | |
elf: Use the term "program interpreter" in the ld.so help message
This is the term that the ELF standard itself uses.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | elf/dl-usage.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/elf/dl-usage.c b/elf/dl-usage.c index f3c5ac76d3..8c24c13770 100644 --- a/elf/dl-usage.c +++ b/elf/dl-usage.c @@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ _dl_help (const char *argv0, struct dl_main_state *state) { _dl_printf ("\ Usage: %s [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE-FILE [ARGS-FOR-PROGRAM...]\n\ -You have invoked `ld.so', the helper program for shared library executables.\n\ -This program usually lives in the file `/lib/ld.so', and special directives\n\ -in executable files using ELF shared libraries tell the system's program\n\ -loader to load the helper program from this file. This helper program loads\n\ -the shared libraries needed by the program executable, prepares the program\n\ -to run, and runs it. You may invoke this helper program directly from the\n\ -command line to load and run an ELF executable file; this is like executing\n\ -that file itself, but always uses this helper program from the file you\n\ -specified, instead of the helper program file specified in the executable\n\ -file you run. This is mostly of use for maintainers to test new versions\n\ -of this helper program; chances are you did not intend to run this program.\n\ +You have invoked 'ld.so', the program interpreter for dynamically-linked\n\ +ELF programs. Usually, the program interpreter is invoked automatically\n\ +when a dynamically-linked executable is started.\n\ +\n\ +You may invoke the program interpreter program directly from the command\n\ +line to load and run an ELF executable file; this is like executing that\n\ +file itself, but always uses the program interpreter you invoked,\n\ +instead of the program interpreter specified in the executable file you\n\ +run. Invoking the program interpreter directly provides access to\n\ +additional diagnostics, and changing the dynamic linker behavior without\n\ +setting environment variables (which would be inherited by subprocesses).\n\ \n\ --list list all dependencies and how they are resolved\n\ --verify verify that given object really is a dynamically linked\n\ |